Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch
{{Short description|Discworld tie-in book by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
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|image=Tiffany-Achings-Guide.jpg
|alt=First edition cover of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch
|authors=Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent
|cover_artist=Paul Kidby
|illustrator=Paul Kidby
|pub_date=9 November, 2023
|publisher=Penguin Random House
|isbn=978-0-241-65199-5
|pages=200
}}
Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch is a guide to witchcraft written from the in-world perspective of Discworld character Tiffany Aching, with annotations from other characters from the Discworld novels including the witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.
Background
Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch was written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Discworld creator Terry Pratchett, and Gabrielle Kent, a children’s book author. It was illustrated by long-time official Discworld artist Paul Kidby. It is notably Rhianna’s first published Discworld work; she had previously written many things behind the scenes, including a screenplay for an adaptation of The Wee Free Men completed in 2014 that remains unproduced.{{cite book|title=The Magic of Terry Pratchett|author=Marc Burrows|chapter=Chapter 19: Ever After}}
The book was published to celebrate twenty years of the character of Tiffany Aching, who first appeared in the 2003 Discworld novel The Wee Free Men. It is the first Discworld book to take place after the final novel in the series, The Shepherd's Crown, though the fictional manuscript was mostly written before the events of that book, allowing a deceased character to be present.{{cite web|url=https://living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/tiffany-achings-guide-to-being-a-witch |title=Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch |publisher=Living Knowledge Network}}
Tiffany Aching’s Guide was announced on 12 May, 2023 via social media.{{cite tweet|author=Rhianna Pratchett|user=rhipratchett|number=1657075339489574931|title=BIG NEWS! Grab your frying pans and start practicing your hard stare, there’s witching afoot! Delighted to be collaborating with @GabrielleKent, @PaulKidby and @PuffinBooks to bring this in-world guide to aspiring witches everywhere. Updates soon!}} Originally scheduled for 26 October, its release was delayed by Typhoon Saola, and it was eventually published on 9 November, 2023.{{cite tweet|number=1702288024921358403|user=rhipratchett|author=Rhianna Pratchett|title=Unfortunately Typhoon Saola has caused a delay in the shipping of copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, meaning our publication date is now moving from the 26th of October to the 9th of November.}} It was launched with an event at the British Library as part of the exhibition Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination on 27 October.
Like other Discworld tie-ins including Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, it is presented as though published in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork. It makes reference to many characters and events from throughout the Discworld novels, though primarily from the Witches and Tiffany sub-series.{{citation needed|date= December 2023}}
External links
- [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456369/tiffany-achings-guide-to-being-a-witch-by-kent-rhianna-pratchett-and-gabrielle/9780241651995 Publisher’s website]
- [https://wiki.lspace.org/Book:Tiffany_Aching’s_Guide_to_Being_a_Witch Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch] at the Discworld & Terry Pratchett wiki