In 2008, Neil Gaiman described why he didn't set The Graveyard Book in America: "The great thing about having an English cemetery is I could go back a very, very, very long way. And in America, you go back 250 years (in a cemetery), and then suddenly you’ve got a few dead Indians, and then you don’t have anybody at all, unless you decide to set ( Read more... )

I think the title of this post says it all.

( She meets people, she greets people, she dances to music, she hosts the party, Morris says. And she's an absolute sweetheart. And everyone who meets her realizes that and is kind of flabbergasted by how nice she is. )