From the May 16th Variety: NBC Universal’s specialty film arm Focus Features is jumping into the animation game, picking up world rights to the stop-motion pic Coraline from Laika Entertainment, the Oregon-based toon house owned by Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Pic — based on the book by Neil Gaiman, and […]

Most of this information is from what is currently listed in Bowker’s Global Books in Print, but it is supplemented from the various Amazon sites. Please note that the release dates (as well as many other things) are likely to change. Primary Titles The Graveyard Book (listed in Books in […]

Feature – TIME Europe magazine From the May 1st TIME Europe: An adult in one hand, a book to be signed in the other, the children troop into the theater to ask questions of a highly important nature. Their target is the writer Neil Gaiman, whose fantasy book for kids […]

Temple University Reading: With many thanks to Dan for the write-up!Neil appeared at Temple University at the invitation of Samuel R. “Chip” Delany’s graduate writing course. Initially, a small hall was booked for the event and reservations were required. After fielding an unexpected number of calls asking about the event, […]

Clippings: Laika has a page posted for the animated feature version of Coraline, with what may be a production image, a description of the plot, news about the feature, and a brief interview with Henry Selick. Note: The site does require a Flash Player to see the images, and loads […]

Anansi Boys “Best of the Year” Listings: Amazon.com: Top 10 Editors Picks for Science Fiction and Fantasy Borders: Best of 2005 – Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Novels of 2005 (November 7, 2005) Washington Post Book World: Best of 2005 (December 4, 2005) Christian Science Monitor: Best […]

The ‘Good Omens’ New Years Resolutions – 2006 Happy holidays! From the HarperCollins website – Crowley and Aziraphale’s resolutions for the new year, as told to Neil and Terry Pratchett. (With many thanks to baralier for posting this.) Interview – NPR From the December 5th Talk of the Nation: (NOTE: […]

Dogmatika has posted a ‘review’ of the November 16th Belfast event. Meanwhile, I have only received two reports – so many thanks to Melora98, who went to the Naperville, Illinois signing, and and JediTigger, who went to the signing in Charlotte, North Carolina. If anyone else has sent me information […]

Stardust Film News From the October 25th Daily Variety:Paramount is in final negotiations with Brit filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) to direct and produce his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s adult fairy tale Stardust. Vaughn penned the script with writing partner Jane Goldman. Gaiman’s novel, first published in 1997 as Stardust: […]

Coraline Film News From the October 21st Hollywood Reporter:Dakota Fanning has signed on to voice the title character in Laika Entertainment’s animated feature Coraline. Henry Selick (Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) is writing and directing the film, based on the best-selling novel by Neil […]