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===Unfinished texts=== Pratchett's daughter, the writer Rhianna Pratchett, is the custodian of the ''Discworld'' franchise. She said that she had no plans to publish her father's unfinished work or continue the ''Discworld'' series.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=12 June 2015 |title=Terry Pratchett's daughter declares The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/12/terry-pratchett-daughter-fans-shepherds-crown-last-discworld-novel |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Pratchett told Neil Gaiman that anything that he had been working on at the time of his death should be destroyed by a [[steamroller]]. On 25 August 2017 his former assistant Rob Wilkins fulfilled this wish by arranging for Pratchett's hard drive to be crushed under a steamroller at the [[Great Dorset Steam Fair]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Convery |first=Stephanie |date=30 August 2017 |title=Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller |access-date=30 August 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> According to Wilkins, Pratchett left "an awful lot" of unfinished writing, "10 titles I know of and fragments from many other bits and pieces".<ref>{{cite news |date=27 August 2015 |title=Final Terry Pratchett novel The Shepherd's Crown on sale |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34067207 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Pratchett had mentioned two new texts, ''Scouting for Trolls''<ref name="Nation">{{cite web |date=10 October 2005 |title=Interview: Terry Pratchett |url=http://www.alternativenation.net/forums/showthread.php?t=87270 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612061915/http://www.alternativenation.net/forums/articles-features/87270-interview-terry-pratchett.html |archive-date=12 June 2008 |access-date=28 September 2011 |work=Alternative Nation}}</ref> and a ''Discworld'' novel following a new character.<ref>{{cite news |last=Robinson |first=Tasha |date=16 November 2012 |title=Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more |url=https://www.avclub.com/terry-pratchett-on-his-latest-novel-his-medical-diagno-1798234659 |work=A.V. Club}}</ref> The notes left behind outline ideas about "how the old folk of the Twilight Canyons solve the mystery of a missing treasure and defeat the rise of a Dark Lord despite their failing memories"; "the secret of the crystal cave and the carnivorous plants in the Dark Incontinent", about Constable Feeney of the Watch, first introduced in ''Snuff'', involving how he "solves a whodunnit among the congenitally decent and honest goblins"; and a second book about Amazing Maurice from ''The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barnett |first=David |date=27 August 2015 |title=Terry Pratchett 'was working on new Discworld stories when he died' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/27/terry-pratchett-was-working-on-new-discworld-stories-when-he-died |access-date=10 June 2016 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
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