Diana Wynne Jones is very ill

Posted on 6 Jun 2010 | 6 Comments

Just in case there’s a Diana Wynne Jones fan who reads this and hasn’t heard from elsewhere: this most wonderful of fantasy writers has cancer and has chosen to stop chemotherapy treatment and may have only months to live.

If you send her an email message (‘no questions please’) at <meredithxyz at googlemail dot com> it will be printed out and posted to her. I have this news from Kate Nepveu at Tor’s blog, who had it from Ansible and a DWJ fan site.

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6 responses to “Diana Wynne Jones is very ill”

  1. Misrule's avatar Misrule | 6 Jun 2010 at 10.14 pm | Reply

    I feel terrible I didn’t tell you. J x

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  2. Victoria Dixon's avatar Victoria Dixon | 23 Jul 2010 at 12.16 pm | Reply

    I’ve done so already. Have you heard anything new?

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  3. Jonathan's avatar shawjonathan | 23 Jul 2010 at 12.59 pm | Reply

    No, Victoria. I haven’t heard anything.

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  4. Jonathan's avatar shawjonathan | 30 Sep 2010 at 10.51 am | Reply

    There seems to be good news. See Robin McKinley’s blog at http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2010/09/23/fame-sort-of/: ‘She’s doing enormously better than the medical establishment, in its somewhat less than total wisdom and foresight, predicted, but she’s still a bit frail [and writing].’

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  5. Victoria Dixon's avatar Victoria Dixon | 30 Sep 2010 at 1.16 pm | Reply

    Thanks so much for posting that, Jonathan! It was a blast to read the blog and wonderful to hear she’s doing better.

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