neil-gaiman: This is my friend Storm Constantine, probably around the time I met her, which was (I t
neil-gaiman: This is my friend Storm Constantine, probably around the time I met her, which was (I think) in about 1986, at British Fantasycon. Or anyway, in my memory that’s what young Storm looked like. I can’t find a photo of us online, just a space on her long-forgotten myspace page where a photograph of us once was. I remember being impressed by her, not because she was an exotic person of the kind not usually seen at conventions in those days, but because she was the kind of determined writer who was found, by an editor or a reader, on the “slush pile”. (Terry Pratchett was impressed by her too.) We were convention friends, mostly, who would run into each other in Australia or Brighton or equally as unlikely places, and she was always funny and sensible and nice. She cared about nurturing younger writers, she tried to make the world better, and was the kind of person who did things and didn’t just talk about them. Today I heard that she’d passed away, after a long illness, and the world is poorer for her absence. Read her books… -- source link
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