Neil announced this morning on The Today Show that Neil Jordan is to write/direct a film version of The Graveyard Book.

Not surprising that it's been picked up as a film, but this now makes the second book I've copyedited for Neil Gaiman (and Harper) to be made into a major film: first Stardust and now The Graveyard Book::grins ( Read more... )

Neil was on Talk of the Nation this afternoon on NPR. Go listen at the link!

An excerpt from The Graveyard Book is at that NPR site.

This is so exciting! Seeing a book I worked on getting so much attention nationwide!

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, just won the Newbery award!

I copyedited this book for him, with HarperCollins Childrens.

::squee::


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Got an email earlier this evening (around midnight, ET, on Christmas) from a Rodger Olsen, whom I never heard from before, with a subject line regarding Leo Frankowski:

"This message is being sent to all of the contacts In Leo's contact book. My apologies if you receive duplicates or are not acquainted with Leo ( Read more... )

Done with the Wiley book and can invoice that puppy later tonight. Thank goodness. Not only will it be some income for this month (only one other book this whole month, for proofreading, other than the Heinlein project, which is damned scary), but it means I don't have to read anymore about Microsoft SharePoint and social computing today ( Read more... )

Another all-nighter thanks to Wiley and not having the energy to waste dedicate my weekend to proofreading a book about SharePoint and social computing ( Read more... )

I seem to be tottering between complete insomnia (like last night -- still haven't slept, though I tried; Dawn held me down between 4am and 8am but the pain from her lying on my bad leg kept me awake) and not being able to wake up if the horn of heaven called out. At least when I can't sleep, I get a lot of work done. But surely this isn't good ( Read more... )

... and the last of my box of French Fancies to mark 5am ( Read more... )

Excuse me for the silence -- I've had my head stuck in my computer monitor, working on some books for Wiley (and a rather fun project for a production company, which I'll post about another day), and the deadline is now ... so I'll be incommunicado for a few more days, working, that is when I'm not sleeping (yeah, still going on ( Read more... )

ASP.NET 3.5 and AJAX. Five hundred pages of PDF to proofread ( Read more... )