There are links to all the Hugo Award nominated fiction that's on-line up at http://is.rice.edu/~pound/hugo.html. Lots of really good reading there.
The site of the Library of Alexandria has been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707641.stm
Jason Ahlquist has an interview which he wanted to do just before Penguicon, only nobody told me about it, so I wasn't there yet, which meant that he did it at the very end of Penguicon, when I was exhausted. He did an excellent job, though: it's at http://www.marsdust.com/neilgaiman.htm. The beard is still on -- I wanted to keep it until the horror-hosting thingie was done with. I think it probably comes off today or tomorrow...
Hey Neil. I just read something about directors being found for the film adaptation of "The Books of Magic," and I was wondering if you had any information about the project.
Also, and I'm not sure if you'd know this, but the article I read mentioned two guys as directing the movie, and I thought the Director's Guild has a rule stating that only one person can get the "Directed By" credit, which is why, if I remember correctly, Robert Rodriguez dropped out of the Director's Guild, because they wouldn't allow Frank Miller to share a "Directed By" credit for the upcoming "Sin City" movie...or maybe they wouldn't allow Frank to have a credit because he's not a member of the Guild...I might have just answered my own question.
Still curious about "The Books of Magic," though.
dave golbitz
As far as I know, the Director's Guild lets you co-direct films if you started out as a directorial team -- like the Wachowski brothers. Here's an article about the Sin City Film -- no idea how accurate it is.
I signed on as Executive Producer of the Books of Magic film about five years ago, which meant I got to read the scripts, and offer opinions. It didn't mean they had to listen to my opinions.
My current opinion is that I hope that they make the Books of Magic movie closer in spirit to the comic than it currently is, otherwise they'll have a lot of very grumpy comics fans and me. But it's still in the development process, and now they have directors on board we'll see what happens.
Hey Neil, just a note: The feed you recommend in the RSS link at the top of your journal (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/blogger_rss.xml) is now offering bizarre URLs for all of your entries (the latest is http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp) which results in an Internal Server Error:
The include file '../asp/css.asp' was not found.
/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp, line 5
Since you claimed in this latest entry that everything was now worked out, I figured I should let you know about this problem. Good luck!
Oh dear. Well, I'm sure that Blogger will fix it -- they're incredibly helpful -- and I'll try and get them to do it without dumping another dozen posts into people's livejournal friends list.