A Wolf at the Door : And Other Retold Fairy Tales by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor) arrived at the store today
This is the book with Neil’s poem, “Instructions”, as well as redone versions of fairy tales ranging from Cinderella (Jane Yolen’s “Cinder Elephant”) to Jack and the Beanstalk (Michael Cadnum’s “Mrs. Big”).
The audience is 8-12 year olds (you’ll find it in with the Young Reader books, rather than Young Adult), but the stories work for us older folks as well.
I don’t think these newsy bits have appeared here; apologizes if I missed them in the archives. Unfortunately, some are a few months old, but the links seem to still be active
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There was another article about a comic writer’s take on World Horror Con on one of the news sites, but I can’t seem to track down the link – please email me if you can help!
Michelle Hyman, BA-FOG #1 has a web page describing Thing(ie)s you might find on a.f.n-g! which will warn… er… inform prospective ‘thingies’ of what they can expect to go on in the channel.
Her semi-monthly thingie posting also points at the alt.fan.neil-gaiman beta-faq.
I’ve fixed the time display for news postings – the error was a small one on my part – times were off by 8 hours. I’d thought the config file wanted to know the difference between me and GMT, not the difference between me and my server. Oops.
Luckily, making this one change fixed all the posted times. NewsPro programmers, I thank you heartily.
Charles Vess notes in Green Man Press’ messageboard that Neil had requested some artwork to be shown to the movie folks who may want to get the _Land Of Laughs_ project of the ground. _Land of Laughs_ is a Jonathan Carroll book from 1980; it has gone out of print, and while I haven’t seen it priced at anything less than $100 on eBay and such, amazon.co.uk lists a September release on a paperback version.
Ari Veintie emailed to say that Neil will be appearing at Millennium Finncon, a combined SF and Comics convention on August 18-20, 2000.
Their page design is very cool, but I don’t speak any Finnish, and Babelfish doesn’t either, so I can’t understand much other than “Neil Gaiman” (and “P. Craig Russell”). 
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has a plethora of information from their Making Waves cruise. A Cruise Report – complete with pictures of a long-haired Neil – some News and The Perils of Parasailing by Neil himself!
Jean Prouvaire let a.f.n-g know that Inkwell.vue has a conference with Neil about Dream Hunters. I’m not sure if this is a transcript or an ongoing thing. It’s certainly an excellent read either way.
To view the conference, go to the page, click “Enter Conference” and then find topic #73.
Argh! I just checked the new layout with Netscape 4.7 (yes, I prefer IE) and for some reason it refuses to listen to the size=”xx” argument in the Search box HTML, so it stretches too far across the page.
If anyone knows of a fix for this, please let me know (hey, try the new comments page!) I’ve found other pages that use small input fields that work fine in Netscape, but I can’t for the life of me see what they’ve done differently.
The IMDB finally has an entry for Neil Gaiman. Not a lot there yet, but interesting.
Neil’s Journal Where’s Neil?
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