A brief interchange between Neil Gaiman and myself on Twitter:

Neilhimself: Lew Stringer found an article by me age 25 on comics in 1986. http://bit.ly/2lzpR . (The Alan Moore KNAVE interview was better. )

Slovobooks: @ neilhimself Is the Knave article online anywhere? Or do you still have a copy ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned, I set up a new LJ at chaptersevents to record details of various events in the shop. There are now two posts from Tuesday night's event with Neil & Amanda:

Video Footage from Cheryl Morgan of the Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer Event
A Report of the Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer Event, Chapters Bookstore, Tuesday 17th February, 2009The first ( Read more... )

cherylmmorgan - or indeed Cheryl Morgan - has posted some footage from earlier today, at about noon, which largely features me wittering on about what we were going to do for the signing.

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cherylmmorgan wants to come to Dublin for the Neil Gaiman/Amanda Palmer Event in Chapters Bookstore (Facebook Event Listing here) on the 17th of February. She's looking for a recommendation for reasonably priced accommodation for two nights in the city. I know a lot of you out there have stayed in Dublin for various events in the past few years, so your expert ( Read more... )

Right, to completely clarify, Neil Gaiman has now posted this on his Journal:

On the 17th, I'll be doing a signing/reading/singing from the WHO KILLED AMANDA PALMER book with special guest, Amanda Palmer (I will not be singing. She will,) at Chapters Bookshop on Parnell Street, at 5.00pm. (Or, if you are an Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls fan, Amanda ( Read more... )

I am at home sick, but should be back in harness again tomorrow. Since some time on Sunday I've had a persistent pain in my abdomen. Of course, when it didn't go away fairly shortly, I began to imagine all sorts of possibilities, such as appendicitis, or even diverticulitis, which my father suffered very badly from for several years. One visit to ( Read more... )

By an amazing coincidence, Amanda Palmer has posted this on her Twitter:

"[Amanda Palmer] is going to hang in Dublin on 5pm 17th of Feb, at Chapters in Parnell St, possibly with a special guest who may possibly read something."

While Neil Gaiman posted this on his Twitter"If you are in Dublin on 5pm 17th of Feb, at Chapters in Parnell St I might ( Read more... )

For those of you who read Neil Gaiman's blog, his most recent post has this sentence tucked away in it:

Which reminds me: Jameson Dublin Film Festival. I'll be there on February the 15th, when they will be screening Coraline. And, for anyone in Dublin -- or indeed, in Ireland -- who missed the signing last year, I will be doing a reading and ( Read more... )

My morning (and indeed early afternoon, as I'm on a day off, and rose late) has been taken up by Neil Gaiman, and will continue to be so. Firstly I was reading a rather good piece he wrote in defence of the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund - CBLDF - particularly relating to something called Lolicon, which I had never heard of, causing me to originally ( Read more... )

I've just started typing up the interview with Neil Gaiman, so I've decided, for no particularly good reason, to post a scan of the dedication page from Anansi Boys, which Neil signed for me the last time I saw him, in November 2005. It still makes me smile when I look at it.


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