The 20 tales in A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories were written by Pratchett in the 1970s and 1980s for a regional newspaper, mostly under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns. They have never been previously attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015 aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
The collection was bought by Pratchett’s longtime publisher Transworld for a six-figure sum, and will be published on 5 October.
Full story here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/27/rediscovered-terry-pratchett-stories-to-be-published
But will they be any good, that’s the question. I figure if Pratchett didn’t try to release them while he was alive, maybe he knew something we didn’t. Not that that is going to stop the big time fans from eating them up 🙂
These were published in a newspaper, which doesn’t mean they were later-years-Pratchett good, but I find myself intrigued.