Dan Henrick and Gordon McAlpin “write” about Neil at the Nebula Awards in this months Stripped Books at Bookslut. Off topic, but should be spread regardless, as there is a lot of overlap between both the Neil community and that of LiveJournal; there’s a community on LiveJournal for news and a ‘roll call’ for those […]
Feature – New Paper
From the July 6th New Paper: Fantasy come true Neil Gaiman’s Singaporean fans had their fantasies realised yesterday. More than 500 got to have copies of their favourite Gaiman books signed by the the UK-born author of the Sandman comics and other fantasy books. Gaiman, who is in Singapore to show a taste of his […]
Feature – TODAY
From the July 5th TODAYOnline: Almost Famous: Cult novelist Neil Gaiman nearly went pro with a punk band in his teens Imagine if Neil Gaiman became a rock star. Not a rock star of the literary scene, as he’s often been called, but an honest-to-goodness musician in a band. It almost happened – the 45-year-old […]
Clippings
An unsigned review of Anansi Boys was posted on Book Standard on July 1st. Tracy Grant recommends the audiobook of Coraline as “really good” for vacationing young ones, but “…not one to listen to at night” in the June 29th Washington Post. Charles De Lint collects quotes from a number of writers (including Neil) on […]
Locus Awards
“Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire” from Gothic! has won the 2005 Locus Award for best short story
AOL Mirrormask Clip
AOL has posted an ‘exclusive’ clip from Mirrormask. Am assuming it’s not the same as the Yahoo! one, but unfortunately do not have the software to run it here.
Phillipines dates
From the June 28th BusinessWorld: Author Neil Gaiman, the man behind the Sandman series, Neverwhere, American Gods, Coraline and Stardust, among others, will visit Manila for the first time from July 9-11. The three-day series was arranged by Fully Booked bookstore, together with Smart Communications, Inc. and Chikka.com. The main event, called The Gathering, and […]
Singapore dates
I’ve tried to annotate this, but am not coming up with much more information than what was already provided on the journal – try there first. It’s probably worth noting that according to the British Council Singapore website, the 4 July screenings of Mirrormask trailer + Book signing at 4.30pm and 7.30pm at the Orchard […]
Gorillaz
Neil’s interview with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, complete with pictures, has been posted at Wired. Ever so slightly different than Jon Pareles’ take.
Heck with the Google ranking
If this doesn’t mean he’s a household name, I don’t know what does.