"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."Neil Gaiman, A Midsummer Night's Dream
The kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) Back in Black Quite an eventful return from my leave, which is always good. The Gusandall pocket has been quiet as of late with regards to solo hunting and with this in mind I've spent a bit of time hanging out with the Mean Corp crew. Not to say I'm not trying to solo hunt but...
A party thrown by Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia in celebration of Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book”. This video helped Little Shop of Stories win a book signing with Neil Gaiman. See www.littleshopofstories.com and journal.neilgaiman.com for more details.
Maybe Neil Gaiman got it succinctly right on Twitter a few hours ago : J ust read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders ... I may never write a sex scene ever again. O Roth. O Banville. Argh. Yes, it's that time of year again when literary lust because fodder for fun. The Guardian has extracts from all the 2009 nominees for The Literary Review 's annual Bad Sex Award which you can read at your peril....
Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and others Breaking Dawn , by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99) Having been rudely advised by several Disgusted Tunbridge Wellians that my choice of children's books last week was totally out of touch with today's young readers, I have based this week's...
So weird . Stop at Whole Food in New York on Saturday, have some Beerlao beer, meet the Sucklord, and buy a new vinyl toy. And a few more links: 1. Neil Gaiman's daughter briefly hijacked his Twitter feed. 2. Will Leitch remembers the year 2000 month by month. 3. Tapestry made from spider silk . Via . *Previously: A tasty beer's journey through your body . * Buy Suckadelic toys at eBay.
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So my fantasy Becomes reality And I must be what I must be And face tomorrow. -- from Simon & Garfunkel, "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" Ever since I was a teenager, I have found myself able to get emotionally entangled with books and good stories. My first journeys to Middle Earth in the Tolkein books were a prime example. I was unable to put them down because I had been so pulled...
Last week Joseph McCabe of FEARnet.com caught up with Terry Gilliam and the filmmaking Python told him that his long-in-development adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s dark fantasy novel Good Omens isn’t dead in the water yet. Apparently, it’s just resting. “It’s still sitting out there. It needs a lot [...]
NEIL GAIMAN ON HIS BIG WIN The Bookman carried this story earlier today , here is Neil posting on his much-visited website about his great success: "Anything I say about it would sound like bragging, so I'll just mention that The Graveyard Book won the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and leave it at that. I couldn't be there, so Chris Riddell accepted it on my behalf, and read out what I'd asked him...
Interviews/Profiles New The Business of Writing video series with Tad Williams ( The Writer's Journey , Why Did You Become a Writer? ). (via Cheryl K. Morgan ) The Dragon Page interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast). Larry Nolen interviews David Anthony Durham . The Link interviews Cory Doctorow . Dead Robots Society interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast). Mihai Adascalitei interviews Sebastian A. Corn . The...
Forgive me, readers for two things. One, for being absent for so long, and two, for being self-indulgent and explaining away my absence. Humor me, it’s relevant (sort of). Toward the end of the summer I took a new job and simultaneously, somehow, and totally on purpose, I found myself knocked up (no oops there, but I [...]
went to whole foods was hungry this is bad. never shop hungry, and NEVER shop at whole foods hungry. now have much healthy stuff to eat. but am broke need to clean out fridge, srsly. BPAl hates me. they released the anniversary scents and i want many of them, i cannot afford many of them, i can afford maybe two? maybe? also i still want the steampunk scent locket from Trading post. (Gold Phoenix and...
Read it. “People would tell me, ‘How could a writer like you – that we like – like a fascist, an imperialist dog?’ ” Gaiman, who started his career as a graphic novelist steeped in fantasy and science-fiction, commented: “They usually had not read any Kipling, and had [...]
We’re talking about genre hopping, but we also have medium or format hopping. We have authors such as Mike Carey and Dan Abnett writing comics. Jim Butcher wrote a Dresden Files comic. Neil Gaiman is writing screenplays. George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and Charlaine Harris’ True Blood are connected to HBO. Bill Willingham, a [...]
A high-definition stop-motion animated feature – the first to be originally filmed in 3-D – with spectacular CG effects, based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book. Click to Watch Movie Online Tags: Coraline , Coraline Movie , Coraline Movie Review , Watch Coraline Online