I finished Stardust earlier today, by Neil Gaiman. I fell in love with his writing reading American Gods. Then I moved on to devour Neverwhere, Good Omens (a collaboration with Terry Pratchett), The Graveyard Book and now Stardust. I've seen Mirror Mask, which he wrote the screenplay for and while I have not yet read Coraline, I've seen the film. I ( Read more... )

I checked the blog of one of my favorite authors and noticed that he was announcing working on the next book. My heart aflutter, I kept reading. Until I noticed it can be expected, at the earliest... in a year and a half.

The crushing disappointment subsided as I realized the latest book has only been out for three months. My fault for plowing over ( Read more... )

Work today was good. I woke up feeling the inevitable "Urk, I don't want to go to work todaay... *Groan*", but it ended up being a really good day despite my nerves being on end. I called around to sell real adds today, and I didn't really feel all too confident about that. Got a bunch of "No", some "Hell no", but finally came to a "Hmmm... ( Read more... )