Today is World Book Day!!!!!
...in the UK and Ireland. The rest of the world, not so much.
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- Andrew Wheeler was Senior Editor of the Science Fiction Book Club and then moved into marketing. He currently works for Thomson Reuters as Manager, Content Marketing, focused on SaaS products to legal professionals. He was a judge for the 2005 World Fantasy Awards and the 2008 Eisner Awards. He also reviewed a book a day multiple times. He lives with The Wife and two mostly tame children (Thing One, born 1998; and Thing Two, born 2000) in suburban New Jersey. He has been known to drive a minivan, and nearly all of his writings are best read in a tone of bemused sarcasm. Antick Musings’s manifesto is here. All opinions expressed here are entirely those of Andrew Wheeler, and no one else. There are many Andrew Wheelers in the world; this may not be the one you expect.
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2 comments:
I feel it's fair enough it's not as though no one else has ever prefixed "World" to an event exclusively held in one country, America used to do it a lot with sporting events. (I am aware it's changed now).
Hagelrat: Indeed. (See my title.)
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