Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Neil Gaiman
November 05, 2010 | Friday | 1 Comments
Wow. Nearly 350 comments in 24 hours. Someone wants some Gaiman Gabaldon Liu Butcher Beverly Putney Carey magic, and they wants it NOW. First, a note to clarify: I was being facetious in my entry about this contest. Of course I’ve heard of Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon and Marjorie M. Liu. They’re only some seriously successful and frequently awesomepants writers. I was totally kidding, so please do not fear for my brain’s ability to familiarize itself with fiction. Now! I’ve combined the email entries with the blog comment entries and run the whole thing through a random selectinator. The winner,…
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November 03, 2010 | Wednesday | 334 Comments
In the mail this week, I received a finished copy of Songs of Love and Death, an anthology of new fiction from romance, science fiction and fantasy authors you’ve probably never heard of, like Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, Jo Beverly, Mary Jo Putney, Jacqueline Carey and some other people. Gosh, it’s amazing how people with no track record of really honking excellent fiction get to assemble into an anthology AND get really slurpy-good cover art, isn’t it? Outrageous when that happens. Anyway, because (a) I have an ARC and (b) I’m not done with it…
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December 05, 2009 | Saturday | 2 Comments
Back in October I wrote about the twitter collaboration with Neil Gaiman coordinated by BBC Audiobooks.
Well, the book is done and is available through December as an audiobook but only in chapter sections online. It’ll be available for download starting in January. If you’re a Gaiman fan, or are curious how this collaboration turned out, you can listen to each chapter online.
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October 12, 2009 | Monday | 26 Comments
The BBC Audiobooks America folks have sent me a shiny press release today about a new Twitter-collaboration with Neil Gaiman that will result in an audio book: This Halloween, BBC Audiobooks America (@BBCAA) is offering a treat for Twitter audiophiles: the chance to write a story with fantasy master Neil Gaiman. The New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Twitter enthusiast (known as @neilhimself) will launch an original story-writing project on the popular social networking site October 13 at Noon EST. Gaiman will tweet the first line of the story and fans can jump in and continue…
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February 13, 2009 | Friday | 11 Comments
First, Neil Gaiman reading The Graveyard Book, one chapter at each stop of his book took last fall.
You can, as Miri did, lose an entire day listening, but what good listening it is.
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