August 2012
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jakeandyahweh-deactivated201211 asked: What percentage of questions asked through Tumblr do you think you answer? You seem very industrious in that department. Also thanks for coming to Tuscaloosa, AL a couple years back. Still can't believe that happened.
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orpheus-sings-deactivated201210 asked: I love the short short short story "The Sweeper of Dreams". It's a page long, not much more than 100 words, but it is just so lovely and powerful and strange and disturbing and imaginative. This isn't really a question, more of a thank you for writing it.
frenchdogblog asked: I'm 19 and already my friends from high school have pretty much grown up and gotten 'real jobs'. My 20yo brother gets paid several thousand dollars a fortnight for his office job. In the beginning, did you feel like maybe you'd made the wrong choice? That maybe your happiness wasn't worth the scrimping and saving and the questions of "Where is THAT going to get...
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adalger asked: I know you're aware of fanfic in general. You may even be aware of that sub-genre known as "RPF" - Real Person Fanfic. Do you have any thoughts or feelings about your public persona (which may or may not be different from your private self) appearing in the fiction or fannish works of others?
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foibles-and-blurbs asked: Prolly not your issue but the new look of your tumblr is, well, not good. Makes it very hard to distinguish your answers to people's questions. There is little to no distinction or spacing or anything to indicate where the question ends and your answer begins. Oh how some of us can't get over when a website changes its look/layout! ;)
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miss-azura asked: Sir, have you ever gotten your writings rejected? I'm an amateur artist and I want to write a children's book. I have lots of interesting ideas for them, but I'm afraid if the publishers would think that the stories would be too weird and too dark for a children's book, regardless of the moral of the story. How do you cope with the rejection? Do you use them to improve your...
inquisitor023 asked: You feel it's better to just try and write, regardless of how good or bad it is, than to sit back and say 'This won't be good enough', right? I'm kind of in that rut right now.
riverandleaf asked: Before you actually become an award winning writer, were you ever afraid to show your writings to people or did you ever once think that your writings weren't good enough? I need to know if these are innate feelings. Or did you already know that what you've written was incredible and it would change lives?
timetravelingdandy asked: What happened to your blog theme? This one isn't nearly as nice!
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musicfan77 asked: A couple months ago you posted about an unknown 14 y.o. singer/songwriter named Gal Musette. She is now opening for the Magnetic Fields. I want to be 14 again and I want to do everything differently. I would not watch Three's Company after school every day. I would not eat frozen pizza cooked in the microwave. I would not use Sun-In to bleach my hair orange every summer. Instead, I would...
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TPOTS Audiobook: Create Your Own Cover Contest
ellenkushner:
One month ago, THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD audiobook appeared via Neil Gaiman Presents on Audible.com and iTunes! I narrate, with the fabulous Barbara Rosenblat, and a cast including Felicia Day & @neilhimself.
To celebrate, we’re running a little contest.*** It has to do with a very important element in TPOTS (yes, I pronounce it “teapots”): the mysterious book known...
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Now Rebloggable - THE AWFUL TRUTH: Is the Bard...
My friend called the organizers of the event at Bard and they said that tickets to see Amanda’s band are needed to see you read but what you posted on here said that your reading will be free. Do you know which is accurate? Thanks!
isthatmycow
It’s definitely a free reading. Sounds like someone’s a bit confused.
Here’s the Bard website information piece on the reading....
nina-in-technicolor asked: Where can I find your short stories? My local library doesn't have any collections and I have no money to go book-spelunking, but after the gloriousness that is American Gods and Neverwhere (among others) I'm loathe to give you up. (Unrelated: I may have tweaked the concept of London Below rather hard, added some decorations, bent a couple of things and and used a bit of it in a story....
isthatmycow asked: My friend called the organizers of the event at Bard and they said that tickets to see Amanda's band are needed to see you read but what you posted on here said that your reading will be free. Do you know which is accurate? Thanks!
babyshoes-neverused asked: Quick, should I go to business school or pursue my writing ?!
gaiusthegenius asked: Hello! I just finished "Anansi Boys" and, much like when I finished reading "American Gods", I can't decide whether what I just read was utterly bonkers, or deeply profound. Either way, I loved them both and the characters are still lingering round me now, as I try to choose what to read next. (This isn't really a question, just an expression of gratitude and...
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semblanceofnormality:
in all my life, I have never encountered such an astounding act of trolling as the time I spent an hour and a half downloading what I thought was a Good Omens fanmix and then discovering that it was a Best of Queen album.
meg-bug asked: How can you tell someone that they are important in your life, even though you're a shitty person to them most of the time?
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twistedgrimmfaerytale asked: I'm a young writer and it's my dream to someday become an author. I've actually been trying to write my own novel. I love writing more than anything else, and I would love to get my novel published someday. Can you give me any advice on getting published or just writing in general?
room-to-let-deactivated20120828 asked: Why do you come off as so aloof when you have worked with a humble genius like Sir Terry? Typical Yid, delusion of grandeur.
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Reading of NEW STORY: Bard College (near Rhinebeck...
Award-winning author Neil Gaiman will read his new, not yet published story on Wednesday, September 5, at 6 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater on the Bard College campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and seating is on a first come, first served basis.
The story doesn’t have a title because I keep changing it. I hope it will have a proper title by the time I...
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filmfan2211 asked: How does someone Make Good Art when they are feeling low and empty like a beach ball?
voice-bending asked: Can you make your lunch time reading a dinner time reading because for us Red Hook residents, September 5th is the first day of high school. I'm having an internal war about missing my first day of senior year to see my favorite author in person.
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Advance Warning: A Reading May Happen...
Just a hasty note to say that I want to read the short story I finished two days ago to an audience, to find out whether it works or not, and so on. It’s a fairy tale, I suppose, and will probably take about an hour, or a little more, to read.
I’m out in upstate New York right now with Amanda, who is rehearsing her stage show at Bard (and will be doing the first ever test performances...
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News from Discworld 2012
dduane:
Okay, folks: the word is out.
The new Discworld series “The Watch” (AKA CSI:Ankh-Morpork) has been approved by Terry Pratchett and will go into production with BBC Worldwide.
The project to film GOOD OMENS is also going forward. A “mood reel” of images evocative of the story was put together by the production company and was shown as part of the announcement. (This was commonly being...
meetthegamer asked: My girlfriend has trouble believing in her own writing sometimes but I really do think it's great. Do you have any ideas on how I can help her boost her own self confidence?
konfusedfae asked: I know you can't fix this, but I just wanted to share my sadness. The tickets for your event in Pittsburgh in Nov. went on sale at 12:01 tonight. My friend was pressing refresh since 11:50 so we could get VIP tickets for the meet and greet. At 12:01, not a single VIP ticket was available. We suspect they were sold out to subscribers before we even had a chance. I am very sad. I had all my...
