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Friday, May 31, 2002 Posted by lucy_anne at 9:23 AM PDT | Comments (0) On the Edge video apparently has VHS copies of Neverwhere available. I don't have any further info. Sorry.   Wednesday, May 29, 2002 Endless Nights: Publishers Weekly Posted by lucy_anne at 11:46 PM PDT | Comments (1) 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.   Monday, May 27, 2002 Clippings Posted by lucy_anne at 6:45 PM PDT | Comments (0) 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: Bloombury's children's author page for Neil Paul Brazier's pictures from the American Gods launch party. Anne Gay's Stardust interview for Tiscali Stardust Memories, an interview that originally appeared in "Prism", Nov/Dec 1999 A Neverwhere related interview from Cold Pint 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 Washington is also reading... Posted by lucy_anne at 4:39 PM PDT | Comments (0) ...American Gods, at least according to a May 26th piece in the Washington Post's Book World. American Gods Rankings, Week Ending 6/1 Posted by lucy_anne at 4:33 PM PDT | Comments (1) The American Gods paperback is at: #8 on the Publishers Weekly mass market paperbacks list #28 on the USAToday Bestsellers list #3 on the Independent Bestsellers list for May 28st #3 on the Book Sense Extended Bestseller List for mass market paperbacks, for May 27th (complete with a note about the Neil interview mentioned in the blog, and yes, you should be reading that instead of these ranking thingies because it's peachy) #2 on the bestseller list for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association for May 27th #31 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for May 19th Locus compilation list.   Thursday, May 23, 2002 American Gods Rankings, Week Ending 5/25 Posted by lucy_anne at 3:12 PM PDT | Comments (0) The American Gods paperback is at: #7 on the Publishers Weekly mass market paperbacks list #21 on the USAToday Bestsellers list #3 on the Powells/Salon bestsellers list for May 22nd #3 on the Independent Bestsellers list for May 21st #1 on the bestseller list for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association for May 20th #35 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for May 19th #10 on the Toronto Sun paperback bestsellers list for May 19th Locus compilation list. Coraline in USA Today Posted by lucy_anne at 3:00 AM PDT | Comments (0) Deirdre Donahue, "Plot your reading course; Booksellers recommend the season's hot reads.", USA Today, May 23, 2002. ...Bookseller Scott Werbin at the Tudor Bookshop and Cafe in Kingston, Pa., possesses a particular expertise in science fiction. The title he most anticipates: Coraline, written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean (HarperCollins, $15.99; early July). "He is the most prolific and powerful contemporary fantasy writer working today," Werbin says of Gaiman, author of the best-selling American Gods. A children's book for ages 9 and up, it presents "a new way of encountering the supernatural. Using only her imagination, Coraline has to save her parents."... This article also appeared in Florida Today   Wednesday, May 22, 2002 Harlequin Valentine Review - Fantasy & Science Fiction Posted by lucy_anne at 10:38 AM PDT | Comments (0) Charles De Lint reviews Harlequin Valentine in the June 2002 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.   Monday, May 20, 2002 Coraline Signing - Union Square B&N, NYC Posted by lucy_anne at 6:27 PM PDT | Comments (0) The Union Square B&N is at 33 East 17th Street, right by Broadway; their main phone number is 212-253-0810. Store information and street directions are available through the store locator off of the Barnes & Noble website (put in 10003 as the zip code); they are not listing the Coraline event on July 11th just yet though. If you're going by subway, you can either take the 4, 5, or 6 lines to the 14th St. Station or the N, R, Q, or W lines to the Union Square station (there should be a good subway map here).   Sunday, May 19, 2002 More bestseller rankings.... Posted by lucy_anne at 4:27 PM PDT | Comments (0) American Gods debuts at #12 on the Book Sense Extended Bestseller List for mass market paperbacks, for sales week ending Sunday, May 12. It's also #9 on the May 18th paperback bestseller list from Canada's Globe and Mail, #10 on the Publishers Weekly Mass Market Paperback list and #35 on the USAToday Bestsellers list. The full lists are here.   Thursday, May 16, 2002 Clippings Posted by lucy_anne at 9:02 AM PDT | Comments (0) There's an oh so brief mention in the New York Times, as part of a larger article by Martin Arnold about popular authors writing for children. To whit, "...HarperCollins will soon have children's books by Clive Barker, the horrorist writer, and Neil Gaiman, the fantasy writer. The question is, if writers of adult books want to be inhabitants of the children's book world, do the writers, of necessity, change prose styles? The answer is, they shouldn't...". A very similar mention is made in Jennifer Brown & Jason Britton's article from the May 20th Publishers Weekly, A Bountiful Crop for Kids: Neil Gaiman is coming out with Coraline in July, with a 150,000-copy first printing; the audiobook, read by Gaiman, with music by the Gothic Archies, will be released from HarperChildren's Audio two weeks before the book's publication. Also a brief mention in Martin Levin's Shelf Life column for May 11th in the Globe and Mail.   Wednesday, May 15, 2002 DarkEcho Horror Posted by lucy_anne at 4:32 PM PDT | Comments (0) From MJ Rose's May 14th column from Wired: Horrors redux: Paula Guran will re-launch her horror and dark literature site, DarkEcho Horror. It includes scores of professional book reviews, articles and interviews with authors such as of Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman and Joyce Carol Oates. Guran's own award-winning e-mail newsletter, print magazine Cemetery Dance, and the PDF magazine The Spook will also be online at DarkEcho Horror. Two Neil interviews are posted,Pretty Decent/ American Gods, originally in the July 2001 edition of PDF format magazine, The Spook, and We Tell the Lies That Tell The Truth/Stardust, originally published in HorrorOnline in 1999. Also, the American Gods paperback is again #3 on the new Independent Bestseller list, and #5 on the Salon/Powells bestseller list. It's also starting to show up in newsstand best seller racks, at least in NYC, which is a strange and neat thing.   Friday, May 10, 2002 Adventures in the Dream Trade Review - The Booklist Posted by lucy_anne at 1:55 AM PDT | Comments (0) Olson, Ray. "Adventures in the Dream Trade", The Booklist; Chicago; Apr 15, 2002 Gaiman, Neil. Adventures in the Dream Trade. Apr.2002. 2002.286p. NESFA, P.O. Box 809, Framingham, MA 01701, $26 (1-886778-- 37-X). 818. The heart of this predominantly nonfiction collection by the author of the graphic novel series Sandman, the all-prose fantasies Neverwhere (1997) and Stardust (1998), and lots of first-rate fantasy short stories is a Web log about publishing and publicizing his big novel American Gods |BKL My 15 01|. Regardless of what one thought about that book, the log is amusing, informative about the nuts-and-bolts of bringing a book from typescript to buyers' hands (signed by the author, yet!), and gratifying for the same reason that most of the shorter pieces here are: getting to know whom Gaiman admires among fellow fantasy, sf, and comics creators. Enthusiasm and humor are the key elements in the shorter stuff, which consists mostly of introductions to other writers and their books, gleaned from new editions and from such ephemeral sources as Readercon II Program Book (1999) and music-CD liners; genre fans will glean scads of reading recommendations from Gaiman's entertaining endorsements. Handfuls of poems, song lyrics, and short-short stories round out an altogether delightful book. YA/L: For fans, great readers' advisory; for aspiring writers, inspiration.   Wednesday, May 8, 2002 Posted by lucy_anne at 10:22 AM PDT | Comments (0) The American Gods paperback debuts at #3 on the Independent Bestsellers list. This should be the link to the next round of Locus bestsellers, which should collect the American Gods paperback rankings from most of the major bestseller lists. I am unsure as to when it will go live, but imagine it will be in the next few days Publishers Weekly has posted a few BEA related articles mentioning Neil, including one on graphic novels, and one on children's books; they also ran the following piece back on April 22: Gaiman in 3-Book Morrow/Avon Deal Author Neil Gaiman, who made a big success with his Sandman graphic novels and whose American Gods was a 2001 bestseller, has signed a three-book deal with executive editor Jennifer Hershey at Morrow/Avon, who had published his first work. She signed for two new novels and a book of short stories with agent Merilee Heifetz at Writers House. The North American deal includes audio. Gaiman is also the author of a children's book, Coraline, due this summer, and is at work on several movie projects. Speaking of BEA, I'm not finding advanced copies of Coraline yet in NYC, at least at the usual suspect. Hopefully that means they're being read. Murder Mysteries Art Posted by puck at 6:15 AM PDT | Comments (1) Neil mentioned it (and LucyAnne & I!) in his journal, but they're so gorgeous I have to post the link to P. Craig Russell's Murder Mysteries adapation preview. Wow!   Tuesday, May 7, 2002 Posted by lucy_anne at 5:14 PM PDT | Comments (0) There's an excerpt of the Neil interview from Sketch magazine online Fox News ran a story on girl friendly comics, singling out the Sandman series. Comicon's Splash page includes a really well written, comics-oriented take on BookExpo America. Bud Plant has a number of Neil related things on sale, including two Charles Vess prints from Stardust (The Power of Storm Hold, The Witch-Woman Cracked Her Whip), the Dream Hunters hardcover, the Incarnations figures, and the Sandman Companion hardcover. There's info on the special edition of Coraline in the May Previews (actually there's a whole Neil section on the order form on p. 46, listing all the HarperCollins books) According to the April issue of "Busted", Neil is now on the board of directors of the CBLDF (apologies if that's an older bit of news - somehow I ended up in their database as Randi Watson. If they have me confused with this person, I'll be very bemused.) And finally, William from NeilGaiman@yahoogroups.com posted the following info from an interview with Karen Berger on Newsarama: Newsarama: Let us run a few names by you, ask you about what some of their future plans with Vertigo may be...Neil Gaiman - can you give us an update on his Endless book in the works and do you and he have any future plans together? Berger: “The Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil’s new Sandman graphic novel is going to be huge for us. It’s Neil better than he’s ever been, joined by an astonishing international lineup of artists: Moebius on Destiny, Milo Manara on Desire, P. Craig Russell on Death, Bill Sienkiewicz on Delirium, Miguelanxo Prado on Dream, Liberatore on Destruction, and Barron Storey on Despair. Nothing definite to announce just yet on future stuff, but give us time…” You can find the full interview here   Monday, May 6, 2002 Hitchhiker's Guide, Baby Posted by puck at 7:45 PM PDT | Comments (0) You know you want it. I sure did. American Gods Mass Market Paperback Posted by puck at 3:42 AM PDT | Comments (0) The American Gods mass-market paperback is out. Even out here in Chilliwack, BC (Canada) I see it on store shelves -- and not just bookstores! I keep fighting the urge to hand it to people who are browsing books and saying "You won't be dissappointed." If you've avoided American Gods because of the high price of hardcovers, grab yourself the paperback now and start enjoying one of Neil's best. Neil in Sketch #14 Posted by puck at 3:38 AM PDT | Comments (0) Bill Baker, comics journalist sends this note along: I thought you and your readers might want to know that an extended interview with Neil about his writing and creative process will be hitting the stands next week in Sketch #14. In our 90 minute chat, Neil covered a great deal of territory including how, when and why he became interested in storytelling, how he develops a tale, what kind of influence a particular artist might have upon his process and the results, as well as what he gets from the act of creation. All of this and much, much more -- including a look at his ashcans for the Sandman comic series and several pages of his long hand manuscripts for Stardust and the forthcoming Coraline -- can be found in the issue. Sketch #14 can be purchased at any comic shop, online via a wide variety of sources [Dreamhaven books has stocked up on this issue, I believe], or directly from the publisher at www.bluelinepro.com through the Sketch links there. Powered by Coranto   Looking for books by Neil Gaiman?