First, the big sadness: Cody's Bookshop has closed completely. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/21/codys-books-of-berke.html
I've loved doing signings and events with Cody's over the years, thought they were special and will miss them very much. It makes me glad that Kepler's is still in business,
I'm a Hachette author in the UK and much of the Commonwealth. I see that, from an Amazon-selling point of view, this might not be a good thing to be.
I guess I'll start finding other places to link to when I want to point to books. Amazon is always the easiest way to link, so it tends to be the place I default to.
I got a bit puzzled last year when my name got left off the National Theatre of Scotland production of "The Wolves In The Walls" at the New Victory (it was there as writer of the book the thing was based on, but not as co-adapter or as writer of most of the extra lyrics). Still, I felt that things had swung a bit far the other way when I saw this article from Variety on The New Victory winning the National Award for Excellence...
Here's the second part of a two part interview with Alan Moore at the Forbidden Planet blog (where you can learn what he thinks about Gordon Brown being petitioned by the public for an honour on Alan's behalf ):
The door to Hell. It's in Darvaz in Uzbekistan.
Weird Tales is blogging an entry a day on its 85 weirdest storytellers of the last 85 years.
I was thrilled by Sandman, the whole thing, being on the Entertainment Weekly top 50 new classics of the last 25 years, and baffled why, when they did the entry on what the longest work on their list was, they only listed the first volume of Absolute Sandman, rather than the whole thing. And googled to make sure that my friend Marc Bernardin was still working there to ask him (not that it's anything to do with him of course) and found myself reading this:
I met Miriam Berkley on a plane in-- I think -- December 1987, on my first professional trip to the US, I think. She's a photographer who photographs authors -- here's an interview with her, along with some of her great author photos:
http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2008/04/eyes-of-miriam-berkley.html
Hi, Mr. Neil!
Thought you might enjoy this:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/07672/I_Believe...
--Julia
That's cool: Turning wordclouds into art. I have to go and play with Wordle, don't I?
why do the characters in your children's book "The Dangerous Alphabet" look so very similar in appearance (hair color, eyes, clothing - even, somewhat, the shapes of their faces) to Al Columbia's beloved underground cartoon characters, "Pim and Francie"? The similarities are pretty uncanny. Are you and your illustrator very big fans of Al Columbia, or is it simply a very big co-incidence?
thank you for your time.
regards,
brent higgins
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything Al Columbia's drawn, apart from a promo piece for Big Numbers about 18 years ago, but I googled Pim and Francie, found a picture, and can't figure out what they have in common with the brother and sister in The Dangerous Alphabet apart from being male and female children, and his hair being lighter than hers. So it's a mystery to me too.
Sent some pictures of me taken for Time Out Sydney...
And here's a scan of the Entertainment Weekly photo page with my top ten on it. A photo almost unique in the history of pictures of me in magazines, for actually looking like me...
In my head Eddie Campbell whispers, "Ah. Righht. Another picture from the Neil Gaiman School of Looking at You Sideways.")
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STOP PRESS: "The Witch's Headstone" (which will, later this year, be Chapter 4 of The Graveyard Book) won the Locus Award for best novelette. Thank you to all who voted for it, and to Gardner Dozois who accepted the award on my behalf. It's a really terrific list of winners, too.
From Locus:
Locus Awards Winners
Winners of this year's Locus Awards, voted by readers of Locus Magazine in the annual Locus Poll, were were announced this afternoon at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Seattle, at an event led by Master of Ceremonies Connie Willis.
- SF NOVEL
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- FANTASY NOVEL
- Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- YOUNG ADULT BOOK
- Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- FIRST NOVEL
- Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- NOVELLA
- "After the Siege", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
- NOVELETTE
- "The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
- SHORT STORY
- "A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- COLLECTION
- The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean)
- ANTHOLOGY
- The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
- NON-FICTION
- Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
- ART BOOK
- The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Lothian 2006; Scholastic)
- EDITOR
- Ellen Datlow
- MAGAZINE
- F&SF
- PUBLISHER
- Tor
- ARTIST
- Charles Vess
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