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Blog: I Watch Films: Island Of Terror from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 9 months agoIsland Of Terror On a remote island off the coast of Ireland a man is found dead, all his bones dissolved. The doctor heads to London, taking the only boat on the […]
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Us school board bans Maus – it shoots into the bestseller lists in the group Author Buzz HQ: 2 years, 9 months agoMaus, by Art Spiegelman, is a graphic novel about the Holocaust. McMinn County School District is a school district headquartered in Athens, Tennessee.MacMinn decided they did not like Maus and banned it. […]
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Blog: I’m afraid to have to go straight to the source to ask this. According to the internet, in January 2022, the Mass Market Paperback of Fragile Things with the amazing cover art by Robert McGinnis was released by Harpers Collins. I have sought out that edition but three times received the 2010 paperback even when double checking edition info, even when checking for the ISBN. I’m beginning to feel like I’m being tricked, and maybe a Robert McGinnis cover doesn’t exist yet? I thought you might know for sure if this edition actually has come out yet or not? I kept one 2010 edition copy for my collection (it’s a long ways away from being complete, but I’m happy to own several of your lovely books), but now I have two too many. They’re looking to become Christmas gifts at this rate, which I’m sure nobody will mind (I work in a library, I can find two other fans of your works with no problem) but I digress. Thanks for Being an Author, by the way. I always enjoy your works! from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoWeird. My guess is that it has to do with warehouse stocking in a post Covid world. I know the book exists as I’ve seen people post photographs of themselves reading it.
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Blog: I love that you are really successful with GO and all but your American Gods novel changed my life. Are you completely done with them? Have we seen the last of Shadow? I prefer what you write rather than the “starz” adaptations. Thank You for your time and patience. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI very much hope not. There are more Shadow stories to be told.
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Blog: may have already been asked, but why is there very little “official” Good Omens merch? i’m just genuinely curious. I have the Funko Pop set and fan art stickers from RedBubble, but usually when a show/movie is popular, Hot Topic (or somewhere similar) has merch of some kind. Could we expect the same result for the upcoming season and perhaps The Sandman series? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI don’t know. I don’t really understand it. We keep being told by the BBC that a) there’s no demand for merchandise and b) they are very grumpy about how much […]
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Blog: The Island of Extraordinary Captives review – fascinating history of an interned artist from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoSimon Parkin unearths the story of German Jewish refugee Peter Fleischmann, who became a painter while a prisoner in a second world war camp on the Isle of ManIn […]
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Blog: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe review – inside the hidden world of embalming from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoThe 1966 Aberfan disaster triggers flashbacks a young man has tried to suppress in a thoughtful debut novel that offsets tragedy with upliftTime’s passing has d […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI finish books before I turn them in. Sometimes (eg Ocean at the End of the Lane) what I hand over is exactly what’s published. Sometimes (eg Coraline) a p […]
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Blog: Violets by Alex Hyde review – a daring debut from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoTwo women named Violet negotiate loss, secrets and birth during the second world war in this intensely inventive novelA few years ago, I was interviewing the […]
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A magic and fantasy mood board in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoHere is a mood board of (somewhat urban) fantasy and magic images to help inspire your writing.
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Blog: Everything Is True by Roopa Farooki review – the first 40 days on the Covid frontline from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoAn author turned junior doctor’s account of the chaos at work and anguish at home as Covid-19 arrived in the UK is vital, cathartic readingI was working as a GP w […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Language Birds Speak by Rebecca Campbell from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 9 months agoThe Language Birds Speak by Rebecca Campbell in Clarkesworld Grace has had trouble speaking all her life, and her son Alex seems to have the same problem. Or not […]
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Blog: The Stasi Poetry Circle review – East Germany’s unsettling war with words from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoPhilip Oltermann’s account of how the Stasi decided to use poems as a means of fighting capitalism is fascinating, strange and troublingThe folk singer Woody G […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI have.There’s an edition of Neuromancer as part of Penguin Galaxy’s SF Classics, with an introduction by me in it.
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI finish books before I turn them in. Sometimes (eg Ocean at the End of the Lane) what I hand over is exactly what’s published. Sometimes (eg Coraline) a p […]
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Blog: Francis Spufford: ‘I felt that to call myself a writer would be a boast’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoThe author of Light Perpetual on a childhood spent hiding in books, dropping a V2 on a fictional London borough and giving up church politicsFrancis Spufford, born […]
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The case of the man who was me in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoColin Blaze is visited by an elderly man who claimed to be 204-years-old. The man’s faded and ancient-looking passport says he is Colin Blaze. They even share a birthday.
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Blog: Sheila Heti: ‘Books by women still get treated differently from those by men’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoAfter her controversial novel about motherhood, the Canadian author has turned the spotlight on her father. She talks about grief, honesty – and her decision not t […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Creature From The Haunted Sea from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 9 months agoThe Creature From The Haunted Sea It’s the Cuban revolution and Renzo Capettto, a deported American gambler and mobster, has been employed to smuggle gold out o […]
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Blog: did you ever get used to the daily covid tests or was it always just as bad as the first time you had the thing shoved up your nose? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoDifferent covid tests in different countries are different. New Zealand covid tests have been uniformly unpleasant and quite often actually painful, as the tester […]
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Blog: In the editing phase of my text-art-story-thingy (which I am dying to show you once it’s finished). Wise friends have commented on the first draft and I had a six month pause from it. Fresh eyes, Bewilderment and All that. Question: When presenting second draft to the publishing profession, should it be “No stone unturned thrice”-finished or “I’m still mulling over whether or not doing this or that minor change”-finished? All I hear is to be prepared to make changes suggested by the publisher and that kind of make me lean toward the latter kind of finished. As to not be to adamant in knowing exactly why each sentence is where it is and why. Really it is a house of card of intricate lies and changing small bits will affect so much anyway but still: Finished or really finished-finished? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI finish books before I turn them in. Sometimes (eg Ocean at the End of the Lane) what I hand over is exactly what’s published. Sometimes (eg Coraline) a p […]
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Blog: question, i’m reading a copy of Smoke and Mirrors i found at a garage sale and ran into a piece of slang i’m not familiar with, in Troll Bridge you wrote “His hair was long, like one of my sister’s little plastic gonks, and his eyes bulged. He was naked and his penis hung from the bush of gonk hair between his legs.” urban dictionary has Not been useful, i texted the groupchat to help me play Guess The Weird British Slang and we were at a loss, what the hell is a gonk? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoThis is where I’d normally say, Google. Google is your friend. But Googling “Gonks” would give you the wrong thing, because lots of toys have sprung up in the l […]
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Blog: sir have you read Neuromancer by William Gibson? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 9 months agoI have.There’s an edition of Neuromancer as part of Penguin Galaxy’s SF Classics, with an introduction by me in it.
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Blog: Isabel Allende: ‘I have been displaced most of my life’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoThe Chilean American author on the allure of Arabian Nights, the inspiration of Gabriel García Márquez and the heartbreak of Jack LondonMy earliest reading m […]
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I dream of water in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoEvery night when you go to sleep you have a vivid dream that you are struggling to stay above the water of a slightly choppy sea with no boat or land in sight. When you wake up, you and your bed are soaked with briny water.
