Making Money
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- For the actual making of money, see Mint for the making of coins and Banknote concerning the production of paper money.
Making Money is a future Terry Pratchett novel in the Discworld series, to be published in October 2007. It is set to be the second novel featuring Moist von Lipwig. The title and the end of Going Postal would seem to indicate that it involves the Ankh-Morpork mint, and possibly the clacks company.
A section was read by Pratchett at the 2006 Discworld Convention, in which the Patrician persuades Moist (bored now that the Post Office is a success) to take over the Mint, and Moist's subsequent encounter with the major shareholder of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork.
In answer to a question asked in New York City during his tour for Wintersmith regarding the dark turn the Discworld series had taken, Pratchett said that Making Money would be more humorous and lighthearted.
The book is to be made into a stage play by Stephen Briggs who has done many other Discworld plays. It is due to be staged in November.
Pratchett has confirmed that Adora Belle Dearheart has become Lipwig's girlfriend by this novel (although it she is unlikely to have become less cynical and hard...) and that he has given the clacks back to their rightful owners.
The cover shows Lipwig in a new suit, standing on what looks like a huge banknote next to a pug (presumably the Chairman mentioned below). Ankh-Morpork does not have banknotes at the moment, though it does have stamps, invented by Lipwig. Presumably he is also inventor of the banknote in this novel.
Plot introduction
"It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless). It turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!" [1]
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