Click here for a link to the details on the talk I'll be giving at the University of Northern Kentucky (which is nearer Cincinatti than anywhere else, if I read the website correctly -- it's at the intersection of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, according to the map, and is thus equally convenient, or not, to people in Dayton, Lexington or Indianapolis.) It's on the evening of March the 25th.
I'll fly up from Aggiecon in Texas, at A&M, where I'll be from March 21-24. details here.
I'll fly up from Aggiecon in Texas, at A&M, where I'll be from March 21-24. details here.
Long-time readers of this journal will remember that, back in around July of last year, due to some erroneous reporting on the part of Wizard Magazine, I went down to the basement looking for stuff... and, needing a really large envelope to put something in, picked up one with a very heavy backing board. And then, because I was curious, I examined the backing board, and discovered it to be a Michael Zulli painting he'd given me seven years earlier that I'd never seen. It was a mystery, and still is. (Go and prod around in the archives around the end of July 2001 for the story.)
So I sent the art to DC Comics and they were somewhat flabberghasted, and Michael was remarkably sanguine about the whole thing, and it is now being released as a poster. (This is a link to a picture of it: http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/2002-05/dcdirect/sandman-morpheus-poster.jpg The original is about 36 inches high. Now you begin to imagine my puzzlement: if I'd seen it, it would have been framed and on a wall before you could blink.
My only theory is that Michael sent me something else, like a page from the Wake, in the same package, and I just assumed it was a backing board...
Then again, if I had known about it at the time, it wouldn't be coming out as a poster now, so it's all worked out for the best.
(NB -- DC prints to order, so if you want one of the posters, make sure your local comic-shop knows, or if you have a mail-order retailer, order it from them. If you have any friends who might conceivably want the poster, send them the image, and remind them to pre-order it. This nudhz was brought to you as a public service by someone who is continually horrified by the price of old sandman posters on e-bay.)
So I sent the art to DC Comics and they were somewhat flabberghasted, and Michael was remarkably sanguine about the whole thing, and it is now being released as a poster. (This is a link to a picture of it: http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/2002-05/dcdirect/sandman-morpheus-poster.jpg The original is about 36 inches high. Now you begin to imagine my puzzlement: if I'd seen it, it would have been framed and on a wall before you could blink.
My only theory is that Michael sent me something else, like a page from the Wake, in the same package, and I just assumed it was a backing board...
Then again, if I had known about it at the time, it wouldn't be coming out as a poster now, so it's all worked out for the best.
(NB -- DC prints to order, so if you want one of the posters, make sure your local comic-shop knows, or if you have a mail-order retailer, order it from them. If you have any friends who might conceivably want the poster, send them the image, and remind them to pre-order it. This nudhz was brought to you as a public service by someone who is continually horrified by the price of old sandman posters on e-bay.)
Forgot to mention on the list of strange things waiting for me when I got back that there was a box of Endless Wall-Hangings -a transparent hangable poster version of the Mike Dringenberg Family Portrait Still Life With Cats. Also a copy of Final Draft 6. And a very small bowler hat, from Betsy Stemple, for my World Fantasy Award (a Gahan Wilson statue of H. P. Lovecraft) to wear. Long long ago she offered to knit me a rasta hat and little dreadlocks for it, and I said I thought a bowler would be better, so she's spent many years looking for one just the right size.
One chapter to go on Witch Week for Maddy. I spent a night, some weeks ago, hunting down a childhood favourite book which shall remain nameless as it also was waiting for me when I got back and I scanned the first chapter and found to my dismay that time had rendered it unreadable. So I shall think of something else.
One chapter to go on Witch Week for Maddy. I spent a night, some weeks ago, hunting down a childhood favourite book which shall remain nameless as it also was waiting for me when I got back and I scanned the first chapter and found to my dismay that time had rendered it unreadable. So I shall think of something else.
Home again.
Spent half a day doing the mail -- waiting for me were an astonishing assortment of things, including a Japanese edition of Shadows over Innsmouth, a French Good Omens and a French magazine called Elegy, an English Mass Market Paperback of American Gods (complete with an "As good as Stephen King or your money back" sticker), the manuscript of the first of the Carla Jablonski Books of Magic novels for my feedback and perusal, the US galleys of Coraline, a Spanish edition of Sandman: The Doll's House and Midnight Days. A letter from a concerned Hungarian-American fan who felt I'd failed to grasp, in American Gods, that "Isten" meant "God" and was thus the Judeo-Christian God (which is perfectly true these days, but has not always been true, which is why he's in there with the rest of the gods on the side of Lookout Mountain -- http://www2.4dcomm.com/millenia/myths.htm may be of use to the puzzled, or not).
Also waiting for me was a Sampo DVE-611 DVD player. I saved a short file to a CD-R, put it into the DVD player, which read it and reset itself very happily to Region Zero, thus, at one stroke, voiding the warranty, allowing me to watch British DVDs, and probably setting the FBI on my trail.
Boskone was lovely -- a good convention organised by good people with some excellent panels, and hundreds of extremely nice people. I signed for as many of them as I could, but strongly suspect that I left as many disappointed as I signed for.
Terry Pratchett's portrait of me in the Boskone booklet was funny and didn't make me cringe once.
Adventures in the Dream Trade, a collection of stuff and nonsense by yours truly, consisting of many articles and introductions, the AMERICAN GODS period of this weblog, some poems and songs, and some uncollected story oddments, was published by NESFA Press, to go along with the convention. The 300 signed and numbered copies sold out immediately, as did most of the unnumbered copies. Check in at http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Gaiman.html if you want a copy before they are all gone. (Andy Richards from http://www.coldtonnage.com/ was one of the dealers there from the UK for those of you in blighty needing a copy.)
My favourite moment of the con was sitting in a Japanese restaurant between Robert Sheckley and Joe Haldeman, having an intense and delightful conversation about writing. (I listened a lot, for there are people beside whom I am but a grasshopper, and Joe Haldeman and Bob Sheckley are two of those people.) Thanks, I suspect, to Brian Aldiss's eloquent championing over the years, much of Sheckley was in print, available, and critically regarded in the UK while I was growing up, although I still had to find a lot of his stories in long-out-of-print US collections of the kind you could only buy in grubby secondhand bookshops where the selling of second hand books and comics was a badly-kept-up front for the trade in barely legal pornography, and inky-nosed boys in school uniforms got very dirty looks from the men in old raincoats at the back of the shop. I hung onto my Sheckley short story collections until the late 80s, when a TV producer who shall remain anonymous (but was actually writer-presenter Chris Langham) borrowed them to research a TV series adapting classic funny SF, and never gave them back.
So I think someone should reprint all those classic Sheckley short stories to save me smearing ink on my nose and heading back to Plus Books in Streatham. Which probably isn't there any more anyway.
Spent half a day doing the mail -- waiting for me were an astonishing assortment of things, including a Japanese edition of Shadows over Innsmouth, a French Good Omens and a French magazine called Elegy, an English Mass Market Paperback of American Gods (complete with an "As good as Stephen King or your money back" sticker), the manuscript of the first of the Carla Jablonski Books of Magic novels for my feedback and perusal, the US galleys of Coraline, a Spanish edition of Sandman: The Doll's House and Midnight Days. A letter from a concerned Hungarian-American fan who felt I'd failed to grasp, in American Gods, that "Isten" meant "God" and was thus the Judeo-Christian God (which is perfectly true these days, but has not always been true, which is why he's in there with the rest of the gods on the side of Lookout Mountain -- http://www2.4dcomm.com/millenia/myths.htm may be of use to the puzzled, or not).
Also waiting for me was a Sampo DVE-611 DVD player. I saved a short file to a CD-R, put it into the DVD player, which read it and reset itself very happily to Region Zero, thus, at one stroke, voiding the warranty, allowing me to watch British DVDs, and probably setting the FBI on my trail.
Boskone was lovely -- a good convention organised by good people with some excellent panels, and hundreds of extremely nice people. I signed for as many of them as I could, but strongly suspect that I left as many disappointed as I signed for.
Terry Pratchett's portrait of me in the Boskone booklet was funny and didn't make me cringe once.
Adventures in the Dream Trade, a collection of stuff and nonsense by yours truly, consisting of many articles and introductions, the AMERICAN GODS period of this weblog, some poems and songs, and some uncollected story oddments, was published by NESFA Press, to go along with the convention. The 300 signed and numbered copies sold out immediately, as did most of the unnumbered copies. Check in at http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Gaiman.html if you want a copy before they are all gone. (Andy Richards from http://www.coldtonnage.com/ was one of the dealers there from the UK for those of you in blighty needing a copy.)
My favourite moment of the con was sitting in a Japanese restaurant between Robert Sheckley and Joe Haldeman, having an intense and delightful conversation about writing. (I listened a lot, for there are people beside whom I am but a grasshopper, and Joe Haldeman and Bob Sheckley are two of those people.) Thanks, I suspect, to Brian Aldiss's eloquent championing over the years, much of Sheckley was in print, available, and critically regarded in the UK while I was growing up, although I still had to find a lot of his stories in long-out-of-print US collections of the kind you could only buy in grubby secondhand bookshops where the selling of second hand books and comics was a badly-kept-up front for the trade in barely legal pornography, and inky-nosed boys in school uniforms got very dirty looks from the men in old raincoats at the back of the shop. I hung onto my Sheckley short story collections until the late 80s, when a TV producer who shall remain anonymous (but was actually writer-presenter Chris Langham) borrowed them to research a TV series adapting classic funny SF, and never gave them back.
So I think someone should reprint all those classic Sheckley short stories to save me smearing ink on my nose and heading back to Plus Books in Streatham. Which probably isn't there any more anyway.
There. I'm at Boston -- flew across the Atlantic (changed planes in Amsterdam Schiphol which oddly doesn't have a hairdressers or barbers in the transit area of the airport, which considering it has a casino and came very close to having a brothel seems like rather an oversite on somebody's part) and got in a few hours ago, with hair like a sheepdog's. (it was like a sheepdog's when I got on the plane too.) Signed 350 copies of Adventures in the Dream Trade. Then realised I was no longer making any sense and went up to my room to sleep but thought I'd post a Valentine's Day hullo to everybody first.
This in on the FAQ line -- Neil- would you be kind enough to post any nonBoskone MA engagements you might have this weekend? Thanks! We're all looking forward to seeing you! and I'm not quite sure that there are any. I'll ask and post any that they tell me about tomorrow. Otherwise you should probably head for fabulous funky Framingham.
Oh, and this...
Neil - you may not have seen this, as I recieved it just in the last hour in my e-mail box, but American Gods was chosen by readers at Powell's Books as one of the top ten books of the year (called the Puddley Awards). You're on a prestigious list with Michael Chabon, Barbara Kinsolver and Jonathan Frazen. Powell's is a great independent bookstore, as well. So Congratulations! -- Laura Gosling And it's all true... http://www.powells.com/prizes/puddly2002.html
and goodnight.
This in on the FAQ line -- Neil- would you be kind enough to post any nonBoskone MA engagements you might have this weekend? Thanks! We're all looking forward to seeing you! and I'm not quite sure that there are any. I'll ask and post any that they tell me about tomorrow. Otherwise you should probably head for fabulous funky Framingham.
Oh, and this...
Neil - you may not have seen this, as I recieved it just in the last hour in my e-mail box, but American Gods was chosen by readers at Powell's Books as one of the top ten books of the year (called the Puddley Awards). You're on a prestigious list with Michael Chabon, Barbara Kinsolver and Jonathan Frazen. Powell's is a great independent bookstore, as well. So Congratulations! -- Laura Gosling And it's all true... http://www.powells.com/prizes/puddly2002.html
and goodnight.
This just in from Inscriptions' (and the New York Times Online's) Jade Walker. Alas, I don't have time to go in and fix all the web-links, but if you go to http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Engravers.html you'll find all the links in place. There should be lots of good stuff in the list to go and look at, which is why I'm sticking up the whole thing and not just blinking bemusedly and mumbling something about it being an honour just to be nominated.
Those of you who seriously want to be writers could do much worse than pay your $5 and subscribe to online Inscriptions, filled with lots of good information not to mention interviews and things...
You've heard of the Oscars, the Emmys, the Pulitzers and the Webbys.
Well, for the second year in a row, Inscriptions Magazine is
sponsoring the 2001 Engraver Awards
(http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Engravers.html) to honor the
achievements of writers, editors and publishers working online and in
print. The nominations have been culled into a ballot, and the
winners will now be chosen by "The Academy" of 5,000+ Inscriptions
subscribers.
Congratulations! You received a nomination. Winners will be announced
online in the Feb. 18 issue. Each winner will receive a year's
subscription to Inscriptions, with credit on our Supportive Scribes
page; a 2001 Inscriptions Engraver Award graphic for Web sites, a
2001 Inscriptions Engraver Award coffee mug and four weeks of free
advertising in the Inscriptions e-zine or Web site.
_____________________________________________
The 2001 Inscriptions Engraver Awards Nominees
Categories:
* Favorite Online Writer
Moira Allen (http://www.writing-world.com/books/moira.html)
Paula Guran (http://www.writers.com/paulaguran.htm)
Christina Hamlett (http://www.absolutewrite.com/site/christina.htm)
Steve Outing (http://www.poynter.org/faculty/souting.htm)
MJ Rose (http://www.mjrose.com)
* Favorite Online Columnist
Madeleine Begun Kane (http://www.madkane.com)
Will Leitch (http://www.nineplanetsmag.com)
Cindy Vallar (http://www.cindyvallar.com)
Karen Wiesner (http://www.eclectics.com/karenwiesner/)
* Favorite Weblogger
Neil Gaiman (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp)
Dave Pell (http://www.nextdraft.com)
Patrick Phillips (http://www.iwantmedia.com)
Jim Romenesko (http://www.poynter.org/medianews/)
Wil Wheaton (http://www.wilwheaton.net/)
* Favorite Print Author
Janet Evanovich (http://www.evanovich.com)
Diana Gabaldon (http://www.dgabaldon.com)
Neil Gaiman (http://www.neilgaiman.com)
Laurell K. Hamilton (http://www.randomhouse.com/features/lkhamilton/)
Stephen King (http://www.stephenking.com)
* Favorite E-Book Author
Angela Adair-Hoy (http://www.writersweekly.com/)
Charlotte Boyett-Compo (http://www.windlegends.com/)
Max Overton (http://www.geocities.com/maxoverton2000/)
Jeff Strand (http://members.aol.com/jeffstrand)
J.C. Wilder (http://www.jcwilder.com)
* Favorite Print Novel
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973650/inscriptions)
"Black House" by Stephen King and Peter Straub
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375504397/inscriptions)
"The Fiery Cross" by Diana Gabaldon
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385315279/inscriptions)
"Seven Up" by Janet Evanovich
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312265840/inscriptions)
"Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385505833/inscriptions)
* Favorite E-Book Novel
"Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary" by Jeff Strand
(http://www.ebookconnections.com/excerpts/graverobbers_wanted.htm)
"The Heretic" by Jason K. Chapman (http://www.happyhacker.org/heretic/)
"Night Terrors" by Drew Williams
(http://www.purepulppress.net/drewilliamsnightterrors.html)
"The Summerland" by T.L. Schaefer
(http://www.atlanticbridge.net/publishing/summerland.htm)
"The Threshing Floor" by E.L. Noel (http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/tfsamp.htm)
* Favorite Poet
Maya Angelou (http://www.mayaangelou.com)
Frank Fradella (http://www.frankfradella.com)
Valerie Hardin (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4266/)
Harvey Stanbrough (http://www.hstanbrough.com/poetry.html)
Neca Stoller (http://members.tripod.com/neca/)
* Favorite Print Publisher
Avon (http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/romance/)
Barclay Books (http://www.barclaybooks.com)
Leisure Books (http://www.dorchesterpub.com/)
Simon & Schuster (http://www.simonsays.com)
Tor (http://www.tor.com)
* Favorite E-Book Publisher
Awe-Struck E-Books (http://www.awe-struck.net)
Atlantic Bridge Publishing (http://www.atlanticbridge.net/)
Hard Shell Word Factory (http://www.hardshell.com)
Novel Books (http://www.novelbooksinc.com)
Writers Exchange E-Publishing (http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/)
* Favorite Online Editor
Moira Allen (http://www.writing-world.com/books/moira.html)
C. Hope Clark (http://www.chopeclark.com)
Jenna Glatzer (http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=988)
B. Lynn Goodwin (http://hometown.aol.com/lgood67334)
Bob Rich (http://www.solutions.net.au/~bobrich/)
* Favorite News Web Site
Ananova (http://www.ananova.com)
CNN (http://www.cnn.com)
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com)
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com)
The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com)
* Favorite E-Zine or Newsletter
All About Murder (http://www.geocities.com/murderlist/)
Fiction Factor (http://www.fictionfactor.com/)
Funds for Writers (http://www.chopeclark.com/fundsforwriters.htm)
Science Fiction Romance (http://www.sfonline.com)
Writing-World (http://www.writing-world.com)
* Favorite Writing-Related Web Site
Ralan.com (http://www.ralan.com)
Writers Exchange (http://www.writers-exchange.com)
Writer's Market (http://www.writersmarket.com)
Writers Weekly (http://www.writersweekly.com)
Writing-World (http://www.writing-world.com)
--
Those of you who seriously want to be writers could do much worse than pay your $5 and subscribe to online Inscriptions, filled with lots of good information not to mention interviews and things...
You've heard of the Oscars, the Emmys, the Pulitzers and the Webbys.
Well, for the second year in a row, Inscriptions Magazine is
sponsoring the 2001 Engraver Awards
(http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Engravers.html) to honor the
achievements of writers, editors and publishers working online and in
print. The nominations have been culled into a ballot, and the
winners will now be chosen by "The Academy" of 5,000+ Inscriptions
subscribers.
Congratulations! You received a nomination. Winners will be announced
online in the Feb. 18 issue. Each winner will receive a year's
subscription to Inscriptions, with credit on our Supportive Scribes
page; a 2001 Inscriptions Engraver Award graphic for Web sites, a
2001 Inscriptions Engraver Award coffee mug and four weeks of free
advertising in the Inscriptions e-zine or Web site.
_____________________________________________
The 2001 Inscriptions Engraver Awards Nominees
Categories:
* Favorite Online Writer
Moira Allen (http://www.writing-world.com/books/moira.html)
Paula Guran (http://www.writers.com/paulaguran.htm)
Christina Hamlett (http://www.absolutewrite.com/site/christina.htm)
Steve Outing (http://www.poynter.org/faculty/souting.htm)
MJ Rose (http://www.mjrose.com)
* Favorite Online Columnist
Madeleine Begun Kane (http://www.madkane.com)
Will Leitch (http://www.nineplanetsmag.com)
Cindy Vallar (http://www.cindyvallar.com)
Karen Wiesner (http://www.eclectics.com/karenwiesner/)
* Favorite Weblogger
Neil Gaiman (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp)
Dave Pell (http://www.nextdraft.com)
Patrick Phillips (http://www.iwantmedia.com)
Jim Romenesko (http://www.poynter.org/medianews/)
Wil Wheaton (http://www.wilwheaton.net/)
* Favorite Print Author
Janet Evanovich (http://www.evanovich.com)
Diana Gabaldon (http://www.dgabaldon.com)
Neil Gaiman (http://www.neilgaiman.com)
Laurell K. Hamilton (http://www.randomhouse.com/features/lkhamilton/)
Stephen King (http://www.stephenking.com)
* Favorite E-Book Author
Angela Adair-Hoy (http://www.writersweekly.com/)
Charlotte Boyett-Compo (http://www.windlegends.com/)
Max Overton (http://www.geocities.com/maxoverton2000/)
Jeff Strand (http://members.aol.com/jeffstrand)
J.C. Wilder (http://www.jcwilder.com)
* Favorite Print Novel
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973650/inscriptions)
"Black House" by Stephen King and Peter Straub
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375504397/inscriptions)
"The Fiery Cross" by Diana Gabaldon
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385315279/inscriptions)
"Seven Up" by Janet Evanovich
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312265840/inscriptions)
"Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385505833/inscriptions)
* Favorite E-Book Novel
"Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary" by Jeff Strand
(http://www.ebookconnections.com/excerpts/graverobbers_wanted.htm)
"The Heretic" by Jason K. Chapman (http://www.happyhacker.org/heretic/)
"Night Terrors" by Drew Williams
(http://www.purepulppress.net/drewilliamsnightterrors.html)
"The Summerland" by T.L. Schaefer
(http://www.atlanticbridge.net/publishing/summerland.htm)
"The Threshing Floor" by E.L. Noel (http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/tfsamp.htm)
* Favorite Poet
Maya Angelou (http://www.mayaangelou.com)
Frank Fradella (http://www.frankfradella.com)
Valerie Hardin (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4266/)
Harvey Stanbrough (http://www.hstanbrough.com/poetry.html)
Neca Stoller (http://members.tripod.com/neca/)
* Favorite Print Publisher
Avon (http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/romance/)
Barclay Books (http://www.barclaybooks.com)
Leisure Books (http://www.dorchesterpub.com/)
Simon & Schuster (http://www.simonsays.com)
Tor (http://www.tor.com)
* Favorite E-Book Publisher
Awe-Struck E-Books (http://www.awe-struck.net)
Atlantic Bridge Publishing (http://www.atlanticbridge.net/)
Hard Shell Word Factory (http://www.hardshell.com)
Novel Books (http://www.novelbooksinc.com)
Writers Exchange E-Publishing (http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/)
* Favorite Online Editor
Moira Allen (http://www.writing-world.com/books/moira.html)
C. Hope Clark (http://www.chopeclark.com)
Jenna Glatzer (http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=988)
B. Lynn Goodwin (http://hometown.aol.com/lgood67334)
Bob Rich (http://www.solutions.net.au/~bobrich/)
* Favorite News Web Site
Ananova (http://www.ananova.com)
CNN (http://www.cnn.com)
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com)
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com)
The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com)
* Favorite E-Zine or Newsletter
All About Murder (http://www.geocities.com/murderlist/)
Fiction Factor (http://www.fictionfactor.com/)
Funds for Writers (http://www.chopeclark.com/fundsforwriters.htm)
Science Fiction Romance (http://www.sfonline.com)
Writing-World (http://www.writing-world.com)
* Favorite Writing-Related Web Site
Ralan.com (http://www.ralan.com)
Writers Exchange (http://www.writers-exchange.com)
Writer's Market (http://www.writersmarket.com)
Writers Weekly (http://www.writersweekly.com)
Writing-World (http://www.writing-world.com)
--
Wouldn't it be really ironic if, as a result of your (totally justified) lawsuit, Todd McFarlane's legal fees forced him to seek help from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (despite your intergral affiliation with the organization)? Just an amusing thought... Good luck with the suit... -Rickey
Well, if the various McFarlane companies could demonstrate that the lawsuit was in some way me attempting to impede their First Amendment rights then the CBLDF would support them. But as it�s not about me impeding their Freedom of Speech, but about me complaining of non-payment of royalties, a littered trail of broken agreements and fraud, the CBLDF doesn�t come into it, on either side. (The full complaint is on-line at Newsarama, here, for the curious.)
Remember, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund doesn�t exist to sort out or fund all or any comics-related legal cases. It exists, very specifically, to defend comics creators, publishers and retailers who run into difficulties related to infringement of Freedom of Speech. It�s as simple as that. And you should support it by going to their website right now, and buying some cool merchandise or becoming a member.
Who should I speak with if I was thinking of translating Neverwhere into Irish?
Well, if you wanted to translate it for your own amusement, no-one. If you want to translate it and get it published, you or a publisher should talk to the Foreign Rights department at Writers House (212 685 2400) about getting the Irish-language rights.
I want to purchase a Death poster. I asked my local comic retailer and his answer was that he did not know of any still sold. Do you know of any in existence and how I could purchase one? And, if you'd like, which is your favorite?
Love your stories... Thanks, Jarriott
I�d check with DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, if only because they tend to order high on my stuff. If they don�t have anything, it�s probably time for e-bay I�m afraid.
Well, if the various McFarlane companies could demonstrate that the lawsuit was in some way me attempting to impede their First Amendment rights then the CBLDF would support them. But as it�s not about me impeding their Freedom of Speech, but about me complaining of non-payment of royalties, a littered trail of broken agreements and fraud, the CBLDF doesn�t come into it, on either side. (The full complaint is on-line at Newsarama, here, for the curious.)
Remember, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund doesn�t exist to sort out or fund all or any comics-related legal cases. It exists, very specifically, to defend comics creators, publishers and retailers who run into difficulties related to infringement of Freedom of Speech. It�s as simple as that. And you should support it by going to their website right now, and buying some cool merchandise or becoming a member.
Who should I speak with if I was thinking of translating Neverwhere into Irish?
Well, if you wanted to translate it for your own amusement, no-one. If you want to translate it and get it published, you or a publisher should talk to the Foreign Rights department at Writers House (212 685 2400) about getting the Irish-language rights.
I want to purchase a Death poster. I asked my local comic retailer and his answer was that he did not know of any still sold. Do you know of any in existence and how I could purchase one? And, if you'd like, which is your favorite?
Love your stories... Thanks, Jarriott
I�d check with DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, if only because they tend to order high on my stuff. If they don�t have anything, it�s probably time for e-bay I�m afraid.
American Gods has just been nominated for a Minnesota Book Award.
Lunch with Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, during which I learned many things including the joys and tribulations and current status of the Good Omens movie. I'll report back what I can here as soon as Terry tells me I can.
The writing's going very well, thank you. Am in a lovely house of undisclosable location, where I write in the basement kitchen, which is the one room I can get warm...
Lots of interesting FAQ questions, and no time right now to do more than a tiny handful...
What, if any, is the connection between your Snow White story, and a similar one by Ursela LeGuin?
Ursula did one too? How cool. I've not read it, and would love to. Probably (I'm guessing here) the connection is that she read Snow White at some point and realised it was the kind of thing she could use to say things with, as I did, as Angela Carter did, as Tanith Lee did, as Caroline Thompson did, as Walt Disney did. Maybe one day you'll do one too...
Just a brief Question: why no feet and inches for the UK edition of your new book? It would have been much more preferable!
According to my UK editor (and from listening to my English nephews, I believe her) it's because kids don't think in feet and inches any longer in the UK but in metres and centimetres.
Congratulations on your first year bloggin' ...and thank you.
It's been a year? How odd. It feels like no time at all, or a hundred years, since I started. And you're very welcome.
Hi, Neil! Would you be able to tell those of us in MA what other appearances you might be making next week? Aside from Boskone, we've heard rumours of a possible reading at MIT, and a tentative book-signing engagement at Harvard Square. (You were excellent at the Brattle Theatre last year [or maybe it was the year before last].) Please inform us as to where we might see you! Thank you! -Kitty
Embarrassingly, I have to confess that I don't know. If anything has been organised in addition to Boskone, it's been organised with my trusty assistant Lorraine who is a continent away right now. I thought it was just the convention, but sometimes I'm the last to know.
Lunch with Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, during which I learned many things including the joys and tribulations and current status of the Good Omens movie. I'll report back what I can here as soon as Terry tells me I can.
The writing's going very well, thank you. Am in a lovely house of undisclosable location, where I write in the basement kitchen, which is the one room I can get warm...
Lots of interesting FAQ questions, and no time right now to do more than a tiny handful...
What, if any, is the connection between your Snow White story, and a similar one by Ursela LeGuin?
Ursula did one too? How cool. I've not read it, and would love to. Probably (I'm guessing here) the connection is that she read Snow White at some point and realised it was the kind of thing she could use to say things with, as I did, as Angela Carter did, as Tanith Lee did, as Caroline Thompson did, as Walt Disney did. Maybe one day you'll do one too...
Just a brief Question: why no feet and inches for the UK edition of your new book? It would have been much more preferable!
According to my UK editor (and from listening to my English nephews, I believe her) it's because kids don't think in feet and inches any longer in the UK but in metres and centimetres.
Congratulations on your first year bloggin' ...and thank you.
It's been a year? How odd. It feels like no time at all, or a hundred years, since I started. And you're very welcome.
Hi, Neil! Would you be able to tell those of us in MA what other appearances you might be making next week? Aside from Boskone, we've heard rumours of a possible reading at MIT, and a tentative book-signing engagement at Harvard Square. (You were excellent at the Brattle Theatre last year [or maybe it was the year before last].) Please inform us as to where we might see you! Thank you! -Kitty
Embarrassingly, I have to confess that I don't know. If anything has been organised in addition to Boskone, it's been organised with my trusty assistant Lorraine who is a continent away right now. I thought it was just the convention, but sometimes I'm the last to know.
I'm falling off the world for ten days to get something written. Not sure if I'll be able to post from where I'll be hiding out (or even if I'll be able to get e-mail there.) This is being posted from Dave Mckean's studio computer, in Dave's wonderful Kent oast-house studio. You cross a rickety log bridge across the koi pond to get here. Dave built both the bridge and the pond when he moved in, and the koi fish just get bigger and stranger, while the logs get increasingly precarious.
"What's it like when it gets icy?" I asked, seeking some kind of reassurance.
"Absolutely treacherous," he said, with relish.
American Gods has been nominated for a BSFA award this year, as best novel. I'm so proud I could pop. (Getting awards, as I said somewhere else on this blogger, you learn quickly - especially if you judge them - are just horseraces, and don't mean much. Being nominated for awards, however, is really pleasant, and means you wrote something people thinik is worthy of recognition.)
"What's it like when it gets icy?" I asked, seeking some kind of reassurance.
"Absolutely treacherous," he said, with relish.
American Gods has been nominated for a BSFA award this year, as best novel. I'm so proud I could pop. (Getting awards, as I said somewhere else on this blogger, you learn quickly - especially if you judge them - are just horseraces, and don't mean much. Being nominated for awards, however, is really pleasant, and means you wrote something people thinik is worthy of recognition.)