from Logan airport

Let's see. I gave the talk in Las Vegas (enormously fun, especially the Q&A bit. Incidentally, for anyone who was there, I checked and the news story I mentioned occurred neither in Pittburgh nor Detroit, but in Philadelphia). Then from there I found myself whisked to a room at the top of a Casino, sitting at another table and signing more books for the people who had funded and helped the Book Festival, and for those who had sprung for an expensive ticket. It was a lot like a normal signing only nobody could hear anything over the music, so if I signed your book to Brian and it should have been to Ryan... er, sorry.

Then I spent most of the day on a plane. (I was meant to be working. Instead, in what is becoming a familiar refrain on this blog, I slept.) Last night I saw Thea Gilmore and Nigel Stonier supporting Joe Jackson (they were wonderful), and met their son Egan again: he's now bigger and blonder.

Now typing in Logan airport -- I've flown up for a family event. Hoping that everything goes according to schedule and I can make it (my cousin Scott's bar mitzvah) and get back to New York in time for the event tonight. I bet I can. It just adds a little excitement to the day.

Charlie Fletcher did the kind of interview in Scotland last week that left me worried that he wouldn't have any interview material as we'd spent the whole time chatting happily. I shouldn't have worried -- his interview is up at http://living.scotsman.com/features/Neil-Gaiman-interview-One-foot.4674238.jp, although I think he would like you to know that he didn't write the headline.

The Dangerous Alphabet confuses the New York Times reviewer (well, she describes it as "funny, frightening and confusing all at once"). "The humor seems better aimed at older kids than the publisher’s recommended “5 and up.” Call me a goody-two-shoes, but I won’t be reading the words “Q is for Quiet (bar one muffled scream)” to my kindergartner anytime soon," she says. Still, it seems like the kind of mixed review that would let people who would like the book know it was out there...

Here's a complete version of the Manchester Creepy Doll (although I am a bit invisible, for reasons that will become obvious):



And finally, an article about tonight's event in New York (and a bit about tomorrow's event) as well as an interview with Charles Brownstein of the CBLDF:

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/neil-gaiman-com.html

Labels: CBLDF, Jonathan Coulton, Thea Gilmore, what you do in planes when you go on tour

Live at Santa Monica

So last night's reading -- the first half of Chapter Seven -- is up at Chapter 7, Part 1 is up at
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx?VideoID=7. My favourite moment was the very end: applause is one thing, but the noise the audience made to indicate that they would rather that I hadn't stopped half-way through was amazing.



(The Interlude between chapters five and six has now been separated out from the end of Chapter Five as well, and is available at:
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx?VideoID=15 and embeddable from
http://blip.tv/file/1332292.)

Annaliza Savage from WIRED interviewed me about The Graveyard Book while I was at Kepler's. Her interview is up at http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/10/neil-gaiman-giv.html

And now I run for a car to a plane, promising myself I will write an interesting blog entry about everyone I saw last night and everything I did yesterday while I'm in the air. But probably I'll just sleep.

Labels: free book but this time in installments and filmed, Graveyard Book tour, what you do in planes when you go on tour