According to the Utah Deseret News and the schedule for the new Main Library, Neil will be at the Salt Lake City Main Library on Friday, March 7th, at 7pm to do a presentation as part of their Dewey Lecture series; he will be doing a signing there on Saturday, March 8th at 10am. Call (801) 524-8200 for more details.The […]
2003 Book Sense Book of the Year Finalists Announced…
..and Coraline is indeed one of the nominees in the Children’s Literature category. According to this article from Bookselling This Week, American Booksellers Association members should get their ballots by the end of March, and the awards will be announced at this year’s BookExpo America in Los Angeles on May 30th
Dreaming Site Cleanup
I finally found some time to fix up the new Coranto-powered Dreaming layout, as well as adding the much nicer news-search add-on. I think everything is working fine, and I’ve updated the Search on the main page and the major sub-pages, thought there might be a few pages still sporting the old search function. If […]
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The trailer for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, based on Alan Moore’s graphic novels of the same name, is now available at http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/ For those of you who (like me) hate streaming the video every time you want to watch it, you may right-click here and choose “Save Target As” to directly download the […]
Clippings
There are stories about Mirror Mask, the Dave McKean directed/Neil Gaiman scripted film, showing up in numerous places, including Comics2Film. ### IGN/Filmforce has posted the second part of their story about the Sex, Lies and Superheroes documentary. ### And an older piece I keep forgetting to put up; there’s a press release on TV Loonland website about the animated […]
Clippings
Leigh Fenly reported on the “Cuffies” for the San Diego Union Tribune yesterday (Coraline won for “Best Audio Book ### Terry England wrote in yesterday’s Santa Fe New Mexican about the Fall 2000 edition of Bard College’s literary magazine Conjunctions:39. Eighteen authors are here, ranging from (John) Crowley’s “The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines” illustrating (Gene) […]
Newbery stuff
Apparently Milwaukee’s public library is not the only place where Coraline has fallen into the mock Newbery territory; it’s been nominated everywhere from Ft. Wayne, IN to Rhode Island to Tempe, AZ to Nassau County, NY
Repost – Jan. 17th clips
And sometimes the Google cache is your friend. Actually, the only recent clip to add is an article by Bruce Owen that ran in today’s Winnipeg Free Press about how police are still attempting to catch the person who last summer used a con similar to the one in American Gods to rob a mall; […]
Thought this was neat – well, the bits I could parse from Babelfish; it’s by Oriane Jeancourt and, Olivier Delcroix from today’s Le Figaro, about Angoulême: DEPUIS 1974, tous les chemins de la BD mènent à Angoulême. Après trente ans de bons et loyaux services, quel est le secret du festival d’Angoulême ? « Finalement, […]
Sorry About The Mess
I’ve moved to a new server and took the opportunity to updated The Dreaming to the latest version of Coranto, the news program that Newspro has become. With that change, I’ve lost the custom settings I had for The Dreaming’s layout, but I’ll get to work on fixing that right away. Luckily, upgrading the data […]