...even though I really really want one (with Felicia Day as Katherine, of course!)!

A screenwriter friend in LA recently wrote me*:

A few days ago I was working with a friend (an A-list feature writer-producer, loves fantasy).  My first pitch to her was TPOTS.  She at once advised me to think television instead of movie.  This was strictly from the ( Read more... )

FROM KATHARINE: With award-winning actors who have appeared on Broadway, London's West End, and numerous television shows and films, the cast for the new TPOTS audiobook is decidedly all-star. If you haven't heard the work of Barbara Rosenblat or Joe Hurley, you are doing your ears a serious disservice, as they are masters of audiobook acting and ( Read more... )

Yes, this week my FaceBook Page is all about Fencing!  Especially Women's Fencing!

Why?

Because Audible.com has thrown up an ad there for the new The Privilege of the Sword (TPOTS) audiobook, and I want to see it!

It is one of those things that pops up in response to your interests - and my liaison there (She Who is Known as Neil's Representative on ( Read more... )

In one of those Bursts of Synchonicity that comes so seldom to so few (except, apparently, me), this Monday the great online magazine Strange Horizons is scheduled to reprint a Riverside short story ("The Death of the Duke") - AND outgoing fiction editor Jed Hartman has found his tape of the interview we did in 2006, right before THE PRIVILEGE OF ( Read more... )

FROM KATHARINE: For those of you who haven't yet gotten a chance to listen to the audiobook, here's the story of the excellent sample you can hear on Audible's The Privilege of the Sword page by clicking the green arrow beneath the cover image. (And for those of you who have heard the book-we'd love to read your reviews, here or on Audible!)

The ( Read more... )

Award-winning illustrator Tom Canty created this exclusive cover for the new TPOTS audiobook, shown here without type for your full viewing pleasure. It's a gorgeous design, but the main thought that keeps running through my mind is how much I want those earrings-anyone else frequently get the urge to rifle through the wardrobes of fabulously-clad ( Read more... )

It's here! It's here! The Privilege of the Sword Audiobook is now available on Audible.com, as part of the ACX/Neil Gaiman Presents list.

Ellen reads all of the first-person narration for the book, with the support of an amazing cast that includes Joe Hurley, Felicia Day, Nick Sullivan, Katherine Kellgren, and, of course, Neil Gaiman himself. The ( Read more... )

And so we left the House of Heart's Desire on Friday morning to ramble our way down to Liz Hand-- no, wait that's wrong*: In the morning,  we went to the Stonington Farmer's Market, looking for fresh eggs and smoked fish in that delightful fishing town at the end of Deer Isle.  And that is why we got such a late start heading down the coast to Liz ( Read more... )

I am hunkered down here in Chateau Riverside, listening to rough mixes of each chapter of THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (TPOTS) audiobook as they come in from SueMedia, as Sue & David & I prepare the audiobook for release. (They're on Long Island, I'm on Manhattan's Upper West Side . . . and YouSendIt is our new best friend!) We are fussing over every ( Read more... )

It's the Allegory of Vice from The Privilege of the Sword!

Sorta.