This is a tour of epic proportions, people. Also the last time that Neil Gaiman will be doing a book signing tour. Get those tickets while you can! The book is excellent and I’m sure the tour will be out of this world.
(With any luck, Neil will survive the tour, but that is another matter entirely)
OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, NEIL GAIMAN US SIGNING TOUR JUNE JULY 2013
Neil Gaiman/OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE/Full Ticket Info EventsTuesday, June 18/BROOKLYN, NY Greenlight Bookstore w/ Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) @ Howard Gilman Opera House 7:00 PM 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 Twitter: @greenlightbklyn @BAM_Brooklyn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenlight-Bookstore/70922460961 https://www.facebook.com/BAMstage?ref=ts&fref=tsWebsite: www.greenlightbookstore.com www.bam.org Wednesday, June 19/NEW YORK, NY Symphony Space “Thalia Book Club Series” 7:00 PM 2537 Broadway (@ 95th Street) New York, NY 10025 Box Office: 212-864-5400 Twitter: @SymphonySpace @SelectedShorts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/symphonyspace?ref=ts&fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/pages/Selected-Shorts/292001113864 Website:http://www.symphonyspace.org/genre/literature http://www.symphonyspace.org/series/72 Thursday, June 20/SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY Northshire Bookstore Saratoga @ Saratoga City Center 6:00 PM 522 Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Box Office: Tickets will be sold on the store’s website, or in the VT store (4869 Main Street Manchester Center, VT 05255) Twitter: @NorthshireBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northshire-Bookstore/224327384223 Website: www.northshire.com Friday, June 21/WASHINGTON, DC Politics & Prose Bookstore @ George Washington University Lisner Auditorium 6:00 PM 730 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Twitter: @Politics_Prose Facebook: www.facebook.com/politicsandproseWebsite: www.politics-prose.com Saturday, June 22/DECATUR, GA Eagle Eye Book Shop @ Agnes Scott College Presser Hall 7:00 PM 141 East College Avenue Decatur, GA 30030 Twitter: @eagleeyebooks Facebook: www.facebook.com/eagleeyebooksWebsite: www.eagleeyebooks.com Sunday, June 23/CORAL GABLES, FLBooks & Books @ Temple Judea 2:00 PM 5500 Granada Boulevard Coral Gables, FL 33146 Twitter: @booksandbooks Facebook: www.Facebook.com/booksandbooks Instagram: BooksandbooksMonday, June 24/DALLAS, TX Dallas Museum of Art @ Majestic Theatre 7:00 PM 1925 Elm Street Dallas, TX 75201 Box Office: 214-922-1818 or visit tickets.dma.org Twitter: @DallasMuseumArt Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/DallasMuseumofArt?fref=tsTuesday, June 25/DENVER, CO Tattered Cover Book Store (LoDo) 6:00 PM 1628 16th Street Denver, CO 80202 Twitter: @tatteredcover Facebook: www.facebook.com/tattered.cover Website: www.tatteredcover.comWednesday, June 26/PHOENIX, AZ Changing Hands Bookstore @ South Mountain High School Auditorium 6:00 PM 5401 South 7th Street Phoenix, AZ 85040 Twitter: @changinghands Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/changinghandsWebsite: http://www.changinghands.com/ Thursday, June 27/LOS ANGELES, CA Live Talks Los Angeles w/ Barnes & Noble @ Alex Theatre 8:00 PM 216 North Brand Boulevard Glendale, CA 91203 Tickets: www.livetalksla.org/events/upcoming-events Twitter: @livetalksla Facebook: www.facebook.com/livetalks Friday, June 28/SAN FRANCISCO, CAThe Booksmith @ American Conservatory Theater (ACT) Geary Theater 7:00 PM 415 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/14616Twitter: https://twitter.com/Booksmith Facebook: www.facebook.com/booksmithWebsite: www.booksmith.com Saturday, June 29/PORTLAND, OR Powell’s Books @ Crystal Ballroom 3:00 PM 1332 West Burnside Street Portland, OR 97209 Twitter: @Powells Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powellsbooksWebsite: http://www.powells.com/events Tumblr: http://powells.tumblr.com/Tuesday, July 2/SEATTLE, WA University Book Store w/ Clarion West Writers Workshop @ Town Hall Seattle 7:00 PM 1119 8th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 Twitter: @ubs_events @ClarionWest Facebook:www.facebook.com/pages/University-Book-Store/44262813758 Website:www.ubookstore.com www.clarionwest.org Saturday, July 6/SANTA ROSA, CA Copperfield’s Books @ Santa Rosa Theater 8:00 PM 1235 Mendocino Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95401 Tickets: www.copperfieldsbooks.com/boxofficeTwitter: @Copperfields Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/copperfieldsbooks?ref=hlWebsite: www.copperfieldsbooks.com Sunday, July 7/ANN ARBOR, MINicola’s Books @ Michigan Theater 6:00 PM 603 East Liberty Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Box Office: http://www.michtheater.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicolas-Books-Ann-Arbors-Premier-Independent- Book-Store/322456060697 Website: www.nicolasbooks.comMonday, July 8/BLOOMINGTON, MN Barnes & Noble of Edina @ Jefferson High School Auditorium 6:00 PM 4001 West 102nd Street Bloomington, MN 55437 Website: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2514 Tuesday, July 9/CHICAGO, IL Unabridged Bookstore @ Music Box Theater 7:00 PM 3733 North Southport Avenue Chicago, IL 60613 Twitter: @unabridgedbooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unabridgedbookstoreWebsite: www.unabridgedbookstore.com Tumblr: http://unabridgedbookstore.tumblr.com/ Wednesday, July 10/NASHVILLE, TN Parnassus Books @ Tennessee Performing Arts Council’s War Memorial Auditorium 6:00 PM 301 6th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37243 Box Office: http://www.wmarocks.com/events Twitter: @parnassusbooks1 Facebook: www.facebook.com/parnassusbooks1Website: www.parnassusbooks.net Thursday, July 11/LEXINGTON, KYJoseph-Beth Booksellers @ Grand Reserve Events Center 7:00 PM 903 Manchester Street Lexington, KY 40508 Tickets: purchase at Joseph-Beth Lexington at 800 248 6849 or 859 273 2911. Twitter: @josephbethlex Facebook: www.facebook.com/josephbethlex Website: www.josephbeth.comSaturday, July 13/CAMBRIDGE, MA Porter Square Books @ First Parish Church 6:30 PM 1446 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Twitter: @PorterSqBooks Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Porter-Square-Books/112608362085830The William Morrow press office just sent me the dates and locations of the OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE tour.
This may be modified slightly as we go — I’ll add any additional information (there’s nothing on ticket prices here, for example — most stores will count your ticket cost toward the cost of the book.)
The current plan is that I’ll sign any copies of The Ocean at the End of the Lane for you, and one or two other things, depending on lines and numbers. This may change.
I’ll also plan to sign as much as possible of what the bookstore has of mine when I get to each new shop, including many copies of OCEAN. So you can watch me read and do a Q&A and then take off if you do not want to wait.
Many shops will have leftover signed books after the signing, or will take preorders for a book to be signed and sent out. I’ll sign all the books that each store needs signed, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to personalise phone/internet orders.
And yes, this will be my last US book-signing tour. And I’m going to try and do as much as possible of it in a bus, mostly so I can get more sleep than I did on the Anansi Boystour.
Feel very free to spread the information around. (UK & Canada & the rest of the world signing information is not in this post.)
For the record, Elyse was the only reason I survived the 2008 Graveyard Book tour. And that was a reading tour, not a signing tour.
OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, NEIL GAIMAN US SIGNING TOUR JUNE JULY 2013
Neil Gaiman/OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE/Full Ticket Info Events
The William Morrow press office just sent me the dates and locations of the OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE tour.
This may be modified slightly as we go — I’ll add any additional information (there’s nothing on ticket prices here, for example — most stores will count your ticket cost toward the cost of the book.)
The current plan is that I’ll sign any copies of The Ocean at the End of the Lane for you, and one or two other things, depending on lines and numbers. This may change.
I’ll also plan to sign as much as possible of what the bookstore has of mine when I get to each new shop, including many copies of OCEAN. So you can watch me read and do a Q&A and then take off if you do not want to wait.
Many shops will have leftover signed books after the signing, or will take preorders for a book to be signed and sent out. I’ll sign all the books that each store needs signed, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to personalise phone/internet orders.
And yes, this will be my last US book-signing tour. And I’m going to try and do as much as possible of it in a bus, mostly so I can get more sleep than I did on the Anansi Boystour.
Feel very free to spread the information around. (UK & Canada & the rest of the world signing information is not in this post.)
TIME MAGAZINE TOP 100
If you think I deserve to be on the TIME Magazine top 100 people, you can go to http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/neil-gaiman/ and vote for me. (You can vote for other people, too, while you are there, like John Green.)
This is not me. This is the Evil Neil Gaiman from The Simpsons. I am not him. He cannot read and is a criminal mastermind. He also does not have a Tumblr.
Write in vote for the Evil Neil Gaiman! He’ll show those other Time 100 people what for.
Also, go vote for the non-evil Neil Gaiman. And John Green.
There are and have been many reasons why I think Elyse Marshall is a wonderful person. Her suggestion that the Simpsons Evil Neil Gaiman be a Time Write-In is only the latest one of them.
TIME MAGAZINE TOP 100
If you think I deserve to be on the TIME Magazine top 100 people, you can go to http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/neil-gaiman/ and vote for me. (You can vote for other people, too, while you are there, like John Green.)
This is not me. This is the Evil Neil Gaiman from The Simpsons. I am not him. He cannot read and is a criminal mastermind. He also does not have a Tumblr.
They asked for a story about water…
So precious babbies Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer ninja visited us at Ringling today. Be jealous.
Very not-shaved author… But happy.
TAMPA/SARASOTA, FLORIDA !!!!
NINJA ACTION, SUNDAY MARCH 17th!
2 pm, ringling college
FREE and ALL AGES!!!!!!
ANYTHING GOES YO!
….random whatever in effect motherfuckers.
backstory: neil and i flew down here from #SXSW madness to visit his cousins, helen and sidney, who are both 95 and live in sarasota.
we decided to ninja and invite them…though they may leave early. we’ll play a little, neil will read a little, we’ll all hang a little (and so’s you knows: neil wants to make it clear that he won’t actually be signing things…but he’ll be back and signing in miami in June for OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, which is an amazing book if i do say so myself).
bring pillows and chairs and milkcrates if you want - it’ll be anarchy!!! bring a uke! bring questions! bring a food and a drink and a sad, naked stuffed animal! bring a glitter sandwich! bring your knitting! bring a baby! bring a an battered copy of the babysitters club series!
actually: if you WANT TO BOOK SWAP, bring a BOOK and we’ll set up a little post-ninja bookswap area. i love doing that. just leave one, take one. or leave several, take several. make sure to write your twitter name (or email if you are open) written in the book.
more backstory:
i put the call out through twitter today and some folks/students at ringling college waved their hands, including the assistant to the president (whoooo) and a great girl named grace (@graceahlizabeth) who sent me the above picture of john, who says HI. HI JOHN.
someone on twitter offered to bring a violin. jamming may happen…
grace says there’s a nice little courtyard we can take over, pictured above. if you can’t find us: follow the twitter and the noise, we’ll probably be lost too.
the main entrance is right off of US 41/Tamiami Trl and Martin Luther King Blvd. (MLK runs right through the center of campus)
(the schools physical address is 2700 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. So it’s two blocks south of the Ringling Museum/New College Campus.)
a word from grace @ ringling college, who texted me and helped me with the location:
“christine (the presidents assistant) is very vocal in bringing in inspiration people for the students.
i’m a senior illustrator that’s an advocate of the local community / music scene. we’re just a melting pot of creatives that seek inspiration in all forms.”
well, YES OBVIOUSLY.
you guys rock. i like florida.
see you all tomorrow.
and FLORIDA: SPREAD THE WORD. very excited to see you.
the whole thing probably won’t go past 4 pm or so, get there on time!
If you’re in the area, Amanda will make magical Ukulele music. I may read a story or a poem or something. Oh, okay, I will. Maybe even two.
ready….set….HAIR. @WayneCoyne VS @NeilHimself in a cosmic cross-continental cut-throat HAIR-OFF
But I’m backlit, and most of the hair on the left of my head has vanished into the light. That’s not a proper hair-off.
I am glad I am married to someone who thinks it is sweet and endearing that her husband can drink half a glass of red wine and immediately go to sleep in the corner at a crowded South By Southwest party.
From Amanda’s Instagram feed. Me asleep.
Four authors after a wonderful dinner the other night. I’ll reblog the first person to correctly identify all of four of us. (Clue, top right is me, unshaven, and not, as you probably thought, a random werewolf.)
Neil, of course.
There’s Gregory Maguire in the red. :) I’ll always recognize him because he looks like a lit professor I’ve had.
Lois Lowry next to him in the scarf! aaaand *pulls hair* Kathryn Lasky with the wine glass! (I’ve never read her books but my brother has a collection)
Good job!
