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....
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.
We mentioned last week that Stephen King mentioned that his new book, Under The Dome, might end up as an HBO miniseries. Well, Variety now has word that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series, likely for cable. Spielberg will executive produce. The story is set in a small vacation town in Maine which becomes covered by an invisible force...
We mentioned last week that Stephen King mentioned that his new book, Under The Dome, might end up as an HBO miniseries. Well, Variety now has word that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series, likely for cable. Spielberg will executive produce. The story is set in a small vacation town in Maine which becomes covered by an invisible force...
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 [...]
Lucy Lou has a great webcomic about why we shouldn’t freak out about changes coming at us and just focus on the work itself. I think its particularly good advice. I’m thinking about ten years ago, when I first got into the field, everyone was freaking out and spending energy on webpages and how they were [...]
Did everyone see my post about Short Story Saturdays this past weekend? If you didn't, just think reviewettes and a way of sharing them. Or you can go read Nicola's introduction , where she does a far better job than I did. However, with S3 in mind, I thought I would follow Nicola's lead and do my first Thursday Thirteen with a list of anthologies I'm looking forward to. It seems like anthologies...
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 [...]
The new Star Trek prequel has gone straight to the top of the UK box office, grossing nearly £6m in its first four days. Director JJ Abrams' prequel to the sci-fi franchise beat another new entry to the top slot, an animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book Coraline.
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