It has been one of my Desert Island books basically since I first read it, and I have a first edition signed by Sir PTerry! Now if I could get Neil to sign it ( Read more... )

Very good piece, two things in particular stood out. First, he attended a talk about the American private prison industry and that they projected their future growth and need for cells based on the literacy rate of 10 and 11 year olds. Wow. Second, that English town councils have been closing libraries to save money, Gaiman talks about the penny ( Read more... )

They are:
Machine of Death, a short story collection which is nicely illustrate by a video called This is the Way You Die. The Machine of Death takes a quarter, a drop of your blood, and spits out a piece of paper that tells you how you will die. But it's not always as straight forward as the slip saying Old Age. Watch the video ( Read more... )

A vampire movie is being funded via Kickstarter starring Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Neil Gaiman, comic creator extraordinaire. They've made their base funding but need all the help they can get to hit their next goal. The project ends Friday the 14th. The creator, Michael Reaves, is a very prolific writer who now has Parkinson's ( Read more... )

The Humble Bundle, for those of you who are unaware, is a pretty cool project used to promote things that may not be easily promoted by the creators and also raise money for charity: when you make your payment, you adjust sliders controlling how much money gets paid to the creators, to charity, and to the Humble Bundle organizers themselves ( Read more... )