Neil Gaiman's Blog, page 44
November 6, 2009
Final Reminder for Bookshops
A quick reminder (as I was just asked) that today is the day that the bookshop Graveyard Book party reports have to be in to Harper Collins. By 9 pm PST.
http://files.harpercollins.com/Mktg/HarperChildrens/PDF/GraveyardContest_rules.pdf are the rules and info for those who lost them.
Hi Mr. Gaiman,
I was disappointed today to read you won't be part of the judging for The Graveyard Book contests. My not-wealthy, middle-of-nowhere bookstore just sent in its entry, and something...
http://files.harpercollins.com/Mktg/HarperChildrens/PDF/GraveyardContest_rules.pdf are the rules and info for those who lost them.
Hi Mr. Gaiman,
I was disappointed today to read you won't be part of the judging for The Graveyard Book contests. My not-wealthy, middle-of-nowhere bookstore just sent in its entry, and something...
November 5, 2009
Note to self: Nights are for sleeping, Days are for Being Awake.
Still trying to get back onto a diurnal schedule. (And, I should add, failing.)
Maddy and I started watching the new season of Sarah Jane Adventures tonight, which seems back on form after a dodgy second season.
Many amazing things waiting for me when I got home -- I still haven't gone through them all yet -- but today's mail brought me a copy of the Fantagraphics Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons book. Three glorious volumes. I wrote the introduction to Volume 2, and t...
Maddy and I started watching the new season of Sarah Jane Adventures tonight, which seems back on form after a dodgy second season.
Many amazing things waiting for me when I got home -- I still haven't gone through them all yet -- but today's mail brought me a copy of the Fantagraphics Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons book. Three glorious volumes. I wrote the introduction to Volume 2, and t...
November 4, 2009
The Author Comes Home, and displays many photographs of his travels
I went to XinjiangProvince in Western China to continue researching my Monkey/China book. This is the photo I took of a scenic building that, I discovered when the men came out to arrest us, turned out to be a police station. If you're in Kashgar do not take pictures of this building. Trust me on this.
This is what I was researching and working on. (As seen in a little town square, on the way to Yarkand):
Xinjiang Province is going to be hard to write about. It's like walking...
This is what I was researching and working on. (As seen in a little town square, on the way to Yarkand):
Xinjiang Province is going to be hard to write about. It's like walking...
October 29, 2009
I go, I go; look how I go,
posted by Dan GuyMr. G is too busy to use the internet, so I'm still here.
Item, the first :: CBS Sunday Morning has moved the segment on Mr. G from this Sunday, November 1 to (tentatively) Sunday, November 8. More as it develops.
Item, the second :: Thanks to reader Tony McFee and Audible.com's director of direct marketing, we have the NYC subway ad!
Item, the third :: Reader Aurora RuPert carved Death into a pumpkin:
And then there was the mailbag:
In honor of the many Graveyard Book Halloween ...
Item, the first :: CBS Sunday Morning has moved the segment on Mr. G from this Sunday, November 1 to (tentatively) Sunday, November 8. More as it develops.
Item, the second :: Thanks to reader Tony McFee and Audible.com's director of direct marketing, we have the NYC subway ad!
Item, the third :: Reader Aurora RuPert carved Death into a pumpkin:
And then there was the mailbag:
In honor of the many Graveyard Book Halloween ...
October 28, 2009
I have a chart. (A dragon chart!)
posted by Dan GuyTable of Contents:Rumour ControlHalloween DecorationsFurther Variations on Account of a Certain Goblin (Who Shall Remain Nameless) Feeling Silly, and Not At All Reflecting a Distaste for Popular Culture -- If Anything the Opposite
This is rumour control. Here are the facts:
We're up to 35 independent book stores throwing Graveyard Book parties.
Dark Horse has posted a preview of Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess.
Livejournal syndicated feeds are borked up; it's not...
This is rumour control. Here are the facts:
We're up to 35 independent book stores throwing Graveyard Book parties.
Dark Horse has posted a preview of Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess.
Livejournal syndicated feeds are borked up; it's not...
October 25, 2009
playing with forms
posted by Dan GuyJournal as CSI: NY:
Mr. G sent the below image and directed me to find someone in New York that could get me a clean, complete photo of one of these subway ads. I wasn't sure if he meant me to post the request here, or if he thinks that I have a secret network of subway-photographing New Yorkers. Which I do, of course. They're just... uh... busy with other assignments. So, my own efforts having come to naught, I turn to you.
If anyone can take a clean, clear, complete photo...
Mr. G sent the below image and directed me to find someone in New York that could get me a clean, complete photo of one of these subway ads. I wasn't sure if he meant me to post the request here, or if he thinks that I have a secret network of subway-photographing New Yorkers. Which I do, of course. They're just... uh... busy with other assignments. So, my own efforts having come to naught, I turn to you.
If anyone can take a clean, clear, complete photo...
playing with forms: Journal as a list of disclaimers
posted by Dan Guy[My apologies to those of you seeing these posts again in your feed reader. I am attempting to diagnose the current LJ syndication fail. -your faithful web goblin:]
Lest I give a mistaken impression by referencing The Guild and The Legend of Neil, please know that I am the very antithesis of a gamer. I have never played a MMORPG. I haven't played a first-person shooter since the original Castle Wolfenstein. Never the less, I enjoy a good laugh, so I avidly follow things...
Lest I give a mistaken impression by referencing The Guild and The Legend of Neil, please know that I am the very antithesis of a gamer. I have never played a MMORPG. I haven't played a first-person shooter since the original Castle Wolfenstein. Never the less, I enjoy a good laugh, so I avidly follow things...
playing with forms: Journal as "Weekly World News" tabloid
posted by Dan Guy[My apologies to those of you seeing these posts again in your feed reader. I am attempting to diagnose the current LJ syndication fail. -your faithful web goblin:]
Due to his special needs and peculiar physiology, Mr. G is shipped from place to place in a specially designed steamer trunk filled with a brandy-like solution. Upon his return home, he is not so much re-installed as he is decanted, the solution slowly replaced with tea. Mr. G spends the first subsequent week in ...
Due to his special needs and peculiar physiology, Mr. G is shipped from place to place in a specially designed steamer trunk filled with a brandy-like solution. Upon his return home, he is not so much re-installed as he is decanted, the solution slowly replaced with tea. Mr. G spends the first subsequent week in ...
playing with forms: Journal as back-page letters column
posted by Dan Guy[My apologies to those of you seeing these posts again in your feed reader. I am attempting to diagnose the current LJ syndication fail. -your faithful web goblin:]
Clare M. writes:
Clare M. writes:
I haven't a question, more a spot of praise for Dreamhaven Books that I'd like to share with you, if I might be so bold.
Some time ago, Neil told us that Dreamhaven had a new batch of signed stock. I was looking for a special gift for my honorary neiece and so ordered a signed copy of Blueberry...
playing with forms: Journal as industry blotter
posted by Dan Guy[My apologies to those of you seeing these posts again in your feed reader. I am attempting to diagnose the current LJ syndication fail. -your faithful web goblin:]
The Graveyard Book Halloween parties map is up to 33 independent book stores!
Dave McKean is working on an animated film adaptation of "Cages"!
Time is running out for those wishing to take advantage of neverwear.net's sale on the otherworldly How to Talk to Girls at Parties print by Camilla d'Errico.
I have it on...
The Graveyard Book Halloween parties map is up to 33 independent book stores!
Dave McKean is working on an animated film adaptation of "Cages"!
Time is running out for those wishing to take advantage of neverwear.net's sale on the otherworldly How to Talk to Girls at Parties print by Camilla d'Errico.
I have it on...
