Congratulations to John Lawn and Alex Carlton whose names came out of the hat first and will be heading off to Waterstone’s Piccadilly for the midnight launch of I Shall Wear Midnight. Commiserations to everyone else, but thank you for taking part. Better luck next time, eh?

Serious note: Please DO NOT turn up to the shop in the hope of getting into the signing because you will not be able to. Once the shop has closed, the only people allowed back in will be ticket holders - there will be no tickets sold on the night and no exceptions. You will be turned away.

It's going to be a long, but it's going to be a lot. Roll on midnight...!

And if you're not going to the signing, signed copies are still available here;

The midnight launch of I Shall Wear Midnight at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London sold out in record time. However, if you were unable to get tickets you could still be in with a chance to bag yourself a pair.

Just email us HERE and include your name, telephone number and confirm that you can be at Waterstone's Piccadilly for 10.30pm on Wednesday 1st September. Also, to make it a little more fun, please let us know why you think it essential that you should be at the launch!

The draw will be made on Monday 30th August and we will inform you by phone if you've been lucky. Please be aware that this is for a pair of tickets to Terry's talk with Tony Robinson, where you will receive a free copy of the book; it doesn't include your travel, accomodation, food or a giraffe.

Good luck! It's going to be fun!

Random House Children’s Books and Waterstone’s are delighted to announce that Sir Terry Pratchett’s new Discworld Novel will be launched at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London at midnight on 1st September. For tickets to the launch, which will include a talk between Sir Terry Pratchett and his friend the actor Tony Robinson, followed by Sir Terry’s only bookshop signing for SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT please contact Waterstone’s on 020 7851 2419 (lines are open Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm only) or visit www.waterstones.com/events.

Tickets - the event is limited to 300 ticket holders. Tickets cost £9.50 each and will include a copy of I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT. Only ticket holders will be able to gain access to the store that evening. The store will shut earlier in the evening, and then reopen for this event. Ticket holders to arrive no earlier than 10.30pm.

Signing - We are limiting the signing to one copy of I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT per person, there will be no dedications at all, and no other books will be signed.

Please contact Waterstone's directly with any queries you may have regarding the signing.

Or...

Signed copes can be bought HERE (with a chance to win a UK bound proof).

Or...

Check back shortly as we are going to be giving you a chance to win a pair of tickets to the signing!

ANWHERE BUT HERE, ANYWHEN BUT NOW

Anywhere but here, anywhen but now. Which means we are after stories set on Earth, although it may be an Earth that might have been, or might yet be, one that has gone down a different leg of the famous trousers of time (see the illustration in almost every book about quantum theory).

We will be looking for books set at any time, perhaps today, perhaps in the Rome of today but in a world where 2000 years ago the crowd shouted for Jesus Christ to be spared, or where in 1962, John F Kennedy's game of chicken with the Russians went horribly wrong. It might be one day in the life of an ordinary person. It could be a love story, an old story, a war story, a story set in a world where Leonardo da Vinci turned out to be a lot better at Aeronautics. But it won't be a story about being in an alternate Earth because the people in an alternate Earth don't know that they are; after all, you don't.

But this might just be the start. The wonderful Peter Dickinson once wrote a book that could convince you that flying dragons might have existed on Earth. Perhaps in the seething mass of alternate worlds humanity didn't survive, or never evolved -- but other things did, and they would have seen the world in a different way. The possibilities are literally endless, but remember, it's all on Earth. Maybe the continents will be different and the climate unfamiliar, but the physics will be the same as ours. What goes up must come down, ants are ant-sized because if they were any bigger their legs wouldn't carry them. In short, the story must be theoretically possible on some version of the past, present or future of a planet Earth.

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2010
A shortlist of six entries will be announced by 31 March 2011.

Check HERE for Competition Terms and Conditions