![]() ![]() ![]() The first draft of the book they worked on together was called William the Anti-Christ, the second was the book they sold in 1990, Good Omens – the full title has an additional line: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Or as Gaiman is fond of repeating: “It was an awful lot like Michelangelo calling you up and saying, ‘If you’re not doing anything this weekend, do you want to do a ceiling?’” This was like an surprise dream apprenticeship to a master craftsman. The younger writer said he was consumed with “trying to ride the Sandman wave” to which Pratchett replied: “Well, I know what happens next – so either you can sell me what you’ve done and the idea or we can write it together.” ![]() Three years on, Gaiman’s Sandman comics “took off and became this mad thing of early success” – which is when, somewhere early in 1989, Pratchett called to find out what progress Gaiman had made on his book. ![]() When Gaiman started a novel of his own, with the amusing conceit that children's book character Just William is the spawn of Lucifer, it was a given that he would send the first 25 pages to his friend to have a look. ![]()
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