Also, my brother has co-written a book about the Millennium Trilogy.

For those who weren't there, Neil Gaiman Talks With Audrey Niffenegger.

Direct mp3 link thing.

Go The F**K To Sleep narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

The Next People

Your yeahbuhwha? news of the day, 21 minutes in.

Amiable and chatty after an hour and a quarter of signing his book, with about two hundred people behind me ( Read more... )

Orbit's annual fantasy cover art trend reveals that Milli is a fashion icon for 2009.

As seen here.

(I initially made myself, and posted it before I discovered that the character archetypes can be changed by hitting "re-do". Hence my being The Slut. Yes, that's the reason. Shut up.)

I just got done reading The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter and while I don't agree with everything it's full of funny, clever, touching, reassuring with the writer's block and the frustration and the rethinking and the getting-a-cold-when-you're-done. And, oh yes, story ideas. Which I will be stealing. This was nearly the 2009 Easter special, for ( Read more... )

Tha'ss interestin'...

I presume that rights have been bought and the bulk of the book (in which a fella called Jack tries to save a young English lady called Elizabeth from undead pirates...) will not be occuring by and large.

And Barbossa's in it. Arrrr!

There were returns, so I was able to see Neil Gaiman's reading. (So if anyone wants to try it tomorrow for him talking to Ian Rankin, may you be likewise lucky.)

( Note-deciphering and faulty remembering of about twenty minutes of talking, as well as about forty minutes of reading which is available in book form. )

The Harry Potter books passed the point of "I can't be arsed reading all that" after Azkaban, so I knew the gist of Half-Blood Prince going in but not the specifics.

I didn't know that...

( I solemnly swear that I am spoiling the show )