March 2012
174 posts
Finally out and ready
The World Book Day App!
The brand new World Book Day App is available now for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the iTunes store, the low, low price of absolutely FREE!
http://www.worldbookday.com/the-world-book-day-app/
It includes six brilliant short stories written especially for World Book Day by some of the best Young Adult authors in the world! Find out about the stories and browse and buy...
quixim asked: How awesome is hanging out with Neil Gaiman?
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saideschain asked: I know you've been asked about meeting your heroes, since Stephen King is one of mine I'm just wondering if you ever met him and how was he like; partly because I remember he wrote the intro to World's End and that he once defined you as a 'treasure house of story' I am just curious about it, thanks
February 2012
156 posts
sister-ragdoll asked: Does Lettie bear any relation to Liza?
marrymejasonsegel asked: Dear Mr. Gaiman, is another children's book on the way? I do so love The Graveyard Book <3
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It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap Year Day!
Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner.
It’s been four years since many authors had a good dinner. We are waiting. Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off while the food is being served and then suddenly scribbling something down on a scrap of paper...
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On Writing. (A bit long. Sorry.)
I got up this morning, and read the thirty or so questions that people had left in the last 8 hours. And apart from the few that wanted to tell me that, honestly, there’s nothing in the whole world like a photo of a gentleman holding a small yellow chainsaw, most of the rest of them were writing questions, about how you start writing and how you continue, and how you keep going when people...
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Simon Spurrier on Panel Parity →
Over 20 years ago, in an issue of Sandman, I wrote a story set at a Serial Killers’ convention. And the only women who got to speak at the convention were on a panel on “Women In Serial Killing”. I thought it was a funny and ironic commentary on something that, I was fairly certain, would change very soon. Certainly in the next 20 years. And in SF and Fantasy, it has. In comics,...
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sweetoldetcetera asked: I've had this question for a very long while: Do you like vegemite?
ruletheworldwithsong asked: I'm trying to write a novel and I'm having a hard time. I'm also an artist and everytime I try to write, I end up drawing the characters instead. I have about 61 pages in Microsoft Word of my novel done, but I need to finish it and not fall victim to drawing. Any advice on what to do to keep writing?
bandygrass asked: Neil, my girlfriend and I are in a long-distance relationship. In an effort to experience life before social media, we’ve resolved to forgo all but written communication for a time. This has become very difficult to maintain. We are both big fans of you and Amanda (saw you both at shows in Melbourne) and check your Tumblr frequently. I hate to bother you with a petty request, but having seen...
albrechtz asked: I'm just now getting truly serious about my sci-fi/fantasy writing but I feel like I may be stretching myself a little thin. I'm 60K words into an urban fantasy that is already looking like it will require more than one book, I just started a YA novel for the Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry open door submissions in late April and I'm kicking around a couple of short stories at any...
libbytumbles asked: I don't know whether someone has already asked this but I've read most of your books and I keep noticing the same character popping up (otherwise known as Jessica, Victoria, Rosie,etc). I know that in my own writing if I see a character keep popping up that is similar to others I find it's actually someone I know and are subconsciously writing about. I was wondering whether she is...
chloetravelsbytardis asked: How are you and your writing going, Mr. Gaiman? ♥♥
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alexandra-lopez asked: I began writing a novel six months ago. As I wrote, I began to feel that my writing became routine. So far I have written 51,571 words and the format I laid out for it would make it spread to 75,000+ words. But I'm no longer in touch with the story like I used to be. Is this because I've been taking too long to write it or is it a sign that I should stop writing it? Because I'm not...
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In which I am interviewed by Maddy Gaiman, aged...
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whethervane asked: Hi Neil! I just watched The Doctor's Wife. Stellar work, there, by the way. <3 Anyways, I was curious - did you come up with the Corsair and the psychic container yourself, or did you base them both off of earlier writings? Either way, they're both lovely. Thanks for your time.
crowleyshouseplant asked: Regarding your answer to the ghostwriter: As someone who was recently offered (and accepted) my own ghostwriting gig and as a fan who appreciates your work, it was hurtful and disappointing to see you go beyond stating your ignorance, telling the individual to just write their own novel, thus completely invalidating a means of writing/writing identity because it didn't fit in with your...
itsverybeautifuloverthere asked: I was discussing literature with a checkout girl at a supermarket the other day, and she made some throwaway comment along the lines of "do you know how many authors *actually* write their own books?" Please reassure me that this is scarcely more than cynical hokum, I don't think I could bear having writing become another thing not to believe in.
stuartforsyth asked: If circumstance stranded you on a desert island for a year with no hope of rescue and one book of your choice, what book would you take?
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brynnely asked: Neil, did you ever take classes on social media and networking, or how to sell your writing around to publishers? Or did you have to stumble around blindly to figure out how to break into writing for a living?
laikacomehome asked: I'd heard that your short story "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" was being turned into a short film. It's one of my favorites in Fragile Things, and I was wondering if this was true or just a rumor.
tearsintime asked: so... what should I eat for breakfast?
ajmoser asked: Hey I was considering picking up a ghostwriting job for a novel, but I don't know how much I should ask for payment. Seeing as I haven't ever done this before, what should I ask for?
colagatji asked: Hello, I'm new here. I heard a lot about your tumblr from my friend. She told me about your books etc. but honestly I didn't read any of it yet. I just want to ask you, which book I should read first? Maybe it's a stupid question but well I'm just curious. :D
segoli asked: Do you know anything about the possibility of an Android version of the aforementioned app?
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The World Book Day App Announcement
The World Book Day App will be available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch coming soon to the iTunes store and for the low, low price of absolutely free!
This brand new App features exclusive new short stories from Malorie Blackman, Neil Gaiman, Charlie Higson, Anthony Horowitz, Sophie McKenzie and Rachel Vincent!
And as if that wasn’t enough (well, you can never have too much great writing) there...
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ENO announces Mini Operas: A Worldwide Online...
English National Opera announces Mini Operas, a world-wide, online search for composers, writers and film makers that will seek out emerging opera talent of the future from across the world. Three competitions to find future stars of all the components of creating an opera will be launched online allowing everyone to submit entries for one or more categories.
Live from 26 March 2012, this...
the-shad asked: I bought my niece Coraline as a gift. When I next saw her, I asked what she thought of it. She got about half-way through, then got so scared she wrapped it up in a blanket and put it in a shoe box. Then put the shobox in an empty toybox, then filled the toybox, locked it, and put it up in the attic. Which was then locked. Just thought I'd share that.
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Where I wish I was going to be this coming Sunday
PEN New England & The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library cordially invite you…
The 2012 Awards for
Lyrics of Literary Excellence
presented to
Chuck Berry &
Leonard Cohen
Awards Committee
Bono, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Paul Muldoon, Smokey Robinson, Salman Rushdie and Paul Simon. Bill Flanagan, Committee Chair.
Song...
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miseryfieldes asked: How many times per day do you get people asking for you to read their manuscripts? Are you ever interested (assuming they give you a short summary)?
chronicluscious asked: You've probably been answered this before, but I was recently rereading "Fragile Things", and I couldn't help but notice the, uh, more-than-coincidental similarities between the story "A Study in Emerald" and the pilot for the BBC's new "Sherlock" series. What's the story with that?
From Today's Blog on Who Jonathan Carroll is, and...
“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.” -Haniel Long, Notes Toward a New...
geekvixen asked: I'm having a really, really hard time letting my main character make mistakes, but I'm also really, really worried about having a main character who always makes the right choice (because that's fucking boring). Any advice?
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MICHAEL CHABON AND NEIL GAIMAN HEADLINE 2012 FALL...
MICHAEL CHABON AND NEIL GAIMAN HEADLINE 2012 FALL FOR THE BOOK
Michael Chabon and Neil Gaiman will receive two of Fall for the Book’s major festival awards at the 14th annual festival—taking place September 26-30 at George Mason University and in venues throughout Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland.
Michael Chabon (photo: Jennifer Chaney)
Michael Chabon will receive this year’s Fairfax...
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ohhellyes-imanervouswreck asked: About the guy worried that his stories weren't unique, I was taught at uni that copyright laws can be insanely restrictive these days especially with 'intellectual property' (usually publishing corporations or deceased authors relatives trying to make more money.) Apparently if they can prove that you possibly came into contact with the original text then they can build a case that...