The Dreaming

Fowarded from Neil, from Amy Burton at HarperCollins

NEW YORK (June 11, 2002) – HarperCollins Children’s Books announced today that New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman will launch his first-ever novel for children, Coraline (July 2002; $15.99; ages 8 up), in the Bay Area.

A separate East Coast launch event for Coraline is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 11 at Barnes & Noble, Union Square in New York City. There will be no other U.S. events until the fall.

Neil adds:

And going mainly from feedback from here [ie the journal], we’ve elected to make this one a reading, rather than a signing. So it’ll be three hours of comfortably listening to a story, rather than five hours of standing in a long line for thirty seconds of hello. We’ll have an interval half-way through, in case any of the kids can’t keep going, and for people to get lemonade and cookies etc.

As you can see, it’s a ticketed event, to cover the cost of renting the hall, but the tickets are cheap and easy to get (and will count against the purchase of a Coraline). We also got somewhere with enough seating that we’re not worried about it selling out. Spread the word across the West.

Cody’s also has an interview with Neil from BEA posted on their website.

Both SciFi Wire and Locus have mentions of the 2001 Stoker Award winners (as noted on the journal, American Gods won for best novel).

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American Gods is a July/August Book Sense 76 Pick for new paperback fiction.

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from the DC NEWS 6/07/02 (reprinted in Comic Book Electronic Magazine):
CHRONICLE BOOKS SANDMAN GIFT SETS SOLICITED IN JUNE PREVIEWS

Chronicle Books’ 2003 Sandman: King of Dreams wall calendar, solicited in the April Previews (APR022845), priced at $12.95, is still available for advance reorder.

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CBEM also listed the results of the 5th National Comic Awards (UK) from Comics 2002 Festival in Bristol. Neil ranked 4th in the Best Writer Ever category, and 10th in the Best Writer Now one.

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From “Summer Listening Fun” from the Publishers Weekly website:
HarperChildren’s Audio is trying something new and different this season. The company will release the audio version of Coraline by bestselling adult author Neil Gaiman in June, a full month ahead of the book’s hardcover release. The audiobook will be a giveaway at Harper’s booth during the American Library Association’s convention in Atlanta later this month.

Not sure if this was in the journal or not and I just missed it, but it should be considered required reading:
Dan Epstein’s interview with Neil is up at Slush Factory. It’s long and wanders all over the place in interesting ways, like a conversation or a journal piece.

It’s full of a lot of newsy bits, including the status of the film versions of Good Omens, Death: The High Cost of Living, Neverwhere, Murder Mysteries, Books of Magic and Coraline.

There’s also information on “Sandman: Endless Nights” (the artists involved are Moebius, P. Craig Russell, Miguelanxo Prado, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Milo Manara), and a very small bit on the Marvel comic (which is still being refered to as “1602″)

The American Gods paperback is at:

• #14 on the Publishers Weekly mass market paperbacks list
• #37 on the USAToday Bestsellers list
• #8 on the Book Sense Extended Bestseller List for mass market paperbacks, for June 6rd
• #7 on the Powells/Salon bestsellers list for June 5th
• #1 on the bestseller list for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association for June 3rd
• #20 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for June 2nd

There’s a short piece on the Good Omens movie on Sci Fi Wire.

And the SF Chronicle Coraline review has yet to show up in my resources, so I will now go off and knock Factiva soundly about the head…

-la
who needs to make her own South Park character…

posted on alt.fan.neil-gaiman by Shane Ivey:

RevolutionSF has published a new interview with Gaiman…
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article/1177.html
…and a review of the forthcoming Coraline, reprinted from Zealot.com:
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article/1178.html

Enjoy…

On the Edge video apparently has VHS copies of Neverwhere available. I don’t have any further info. Sorry.

Douglas Wolk and Calvin Reid, Graphic Novels Feel the Love, Publishers Weekly, May 20, 2002.

…Neil Gaiman returns to his enormously popular Sandman graphic novel series with Sandman: Endless Nights (to be illustrated by seven legendary European cartoonists), slated to appear in late 2002–and there’s enormous excitement around it…

And yes, there are pictures both of the book cover (assuming that’s not a pastiche from previous works) and the author (who has been a pastiche before, if memory serves, but not in this case) on the website.

Bear with. I’m going to try to make this not sound like a livejournal post, but it may wander there.

Went trying to find a dimly remembered webpage from a school where Neil was an alumni from via a BBCi search (which, if I’m understanding the About article properly is a Google UK variation), but came up blank.

Which is not to say there weren’t an enormous number of results – I could fill an entire web page with just links to book reviews from the UK, I think – but just not that one.

These seemed the most Dreaming relevant, and hopefully I am not simply stealing links:

There was also an odd Neil reference in Wendy Graham’s review of Dune in the Read Out archive of FTL magazine, a number of fun things that came up in the Ansible newsletter archives (like this one from Sept. 94), and a photo of Neil’s aunt from a production of Noises Off.

But the point is, yes, I know that while I’m catching the news, I’m missing the webstuffs and the magazines articles. Any help with finding info is desired, appreciated, and will be credited.

Many thanks – la

…American Gods, at least according to a May 26th piece in the Washington Post’s Book World.