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Personal Assistant and why I am so happy

Saturday, 9 October 2010, SENT BY NEIL at 15:52

I have very wonderful wizard.

Really. I am very happy. First, and I think forever, there's Lorraine, which is now my personal assistant for over 18 years. This is Lorraine.

you, a friend of a friend, came here in 1992 to help the books on the shelves again to bring in an alphabetical order, shortly after I moved to the States and had brought my books. And she is not gone. She had to acquire new skills, face their fears ( bees! Airports! Grumpy writer! ) and it is wonderful.

Sometimes I hear her on the phone convinced an airline to do things they do not actually do, and if they do, would It cost me thousands, and then she hangs up and says, "Is everything arranged. You have to pay $ 25 airport tax extra, but you have the new route around the world in over Hobart ... "It's really magic.

Somewhere in between she filled her home with Bengali nursing cats, bought a horse, played the violin and sang in various musical connections, a fan club managed, rejected offers from other writers and organizations, telling them that they care for their own business should, and recently made himself fit. She says, in connection with the American Gods meetings HOUSE ON THE ROCK she is happy most of the practice with the Roller Derby girls.

And now she's degree in holiday, for the first time in twelve years. (It's not that I'm a particularly nasty employer, honest. It is difficult for them to move. The Bengal are out of step, and this is just the beginning.) But when I was invited to OctoCon, the SF Convention in Dublin, and put them back for me was, she mentioned that she always wanted to Ireland.

will be the So Fabulous Lorraine next week host the OctoCon . It will also most of the week to go hiking in Ireland.

As a side effect of their Fitwerdens she has lost 25 pounds over the last few months and nothing fits her more. That has not prevented from walking.

We have discovered that the price falls for her ticket when she flies from Rochester and Minneapolis. This is not the comic. The funny thing is that Doctor Dan, our local doctor allowed them to fly in a small plane to Rochester. Small planes make

Lorraine not happy. If I was in a small flying there somewhere, it is unfortunate, and satisfied that they put into it mentally a lot of valuable time must keep the aircraft in the air.

you do it with conviction and let me back happily and amazed. I think it will be a really great time in Ireland.

(Here is Lorraine's Blog on Going to Ireland: http://blog.fabulouslorraine.com/2010/09/ireland-well-cabal-and-ireland-ok.html and her blog of the day: http: / / blog.fabulouslorraine.com/2010/10/did-i-mention-ireland.html )

If you are next week on the octagon or Ireland, please greet them from me.

My other assistant is Cat Mihos, also known as Kitty.

This is Cat. (After a quick Google image search, I took the photo from her MySpace thingy. Every time I have seen them, they had a lot more than here.)


She works not full time. Actually, it is no assistant. On the whole, she is traveling with the likes of Lady Gaga or the Jonas Brothers, circumstances improved for them and their crews. We became friends while working for Tori Amos, seven years ago, and they Maddy taught how to play bowling with lemon .

has between she made the website Neverwear.net and sold things they produce and things that are mine: limited print editions, and shirts and mouse pads and the like, in addition to jewelry and magnetic images, which makes it even . (I make no profit with the site, just in case you're wondering, the profit from my people and what they makes and sells goes to the CBLDF .)

If she is in LA and I'm there, she drives me around the area come to meetings with and make my life easier. Here Kitty's blog is about the few days I finally came to her in LA .

It is also a man who handled fan mail, autograph requests, etc. (and if it is to Lady Gaga six months on tour, I hang for quite a bit.)

She is wonderful. She has produced short films and will, I suppose, one day more than anything else film producer.

And she married today.

you marry Drew.

They are Kitty and Drew:


I'm in Baltimore, where the wedding will be this evening. I will wear my amazing black velvet-and-stripes-thing, which made Kambriel for me (as seen here already was: http://kambriel.livejournal.com/289161.html , and there are mermaids for those who missed this party photos in the last blog entry, and also appears on http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/622744.html where there are beautiful photos of Kyle and me and my daughter, the indescribable Holly Gaiman, can see).

Cat If you want to give what to the wedding, buying some of the cool Never Wear page. (You will soon be the price of the limited print editions increase, making them accessible when the inventory is shrinking and the prints are all are right now probably the Jim-Lee-print my poem "100 Words" and "Desert Wind" illustrated by Molly Crabapple The patented test things, buy you can do.)

I will tonight, "Instructions" to read Cats wedding. Before that, I still have to wear the posh stuff.

And shave.

Actually ... I should probably stop go better with the blogging and shave me.

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Again a strange week. Long blog on the train

Thursday 7 October 2010, at 10:27 SENT BY

No, I do not mean a bad week. Just a curious. I hang with my work is still behind and commute between Boston and New York back and forth.

Friday I drove to New York. Arrived just in time to see the readings by Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith at the Festival of New York who wanted me to come. I would have embarrassed me during the reading of Michael almost because I was very close to steady, but just managed not to do it (it was something personal and a long story). Here's a too dark picture of Michael and Zadie is after the readings.

The hotel, the New York had booked for me had the best view on earth, even in the bathroom:

On Saturday I met Daniel Handler for ice cream (as already announced in this blog). I would have liked to met the author Lemony Snicket, but unfortunately he was prevented under mysterious circumstances, and Mr. Handler came as his deputy.

This photo is reminiscent of the event. I'm on the left. Mr. Handler holds the ice.

After this shot I've let my hair cut.

And then Holly and I set off with the lovely Claudia Gonson and her beautiful newborn Eve. We had a Sushi, except Eve, and then we were in the Evolution shop where I bought a replica of a dodo skull.

The dodo-head was a gift to the Countess by Cynthia Buhler , had a birthday. She works as an illustrator and artist who also throws parties, and that night it was her birthday party. She had decided, the engagement of Amanda and me to celebrate.

There were dead mermaids and there was a turret on the roof.

I've never been to such a party, nor do I think I'll ever be back on a comparable. If you can win a prize celebrations, has Cynthia (a mermaid was the first won in a tub, was then carried around in a bed).

The next morning I had the interview with Dana Goodyear on the New York Festival, it was really fun. (You can see a summary of Entertainment Weekly read here: http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/10/06/5584/ ).

And then back to Boston. And then the train to New York to attend the celebration of the Best American Comics 2010 that I, as guest editor accompanied.

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This morning I've noticed that I am one of the 175 nominees for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: http://alma.se/en/Nominations/Candidates/2011-eng /

I do not know all of the 175 other nominees, but I know who left me with a feeling of joy and the high degree of unworthiness to be on this list . ( Quentin Blake claimed. And David Almond .)

(Incidentally, was Dave McKean gave me a copy of Slog's Dad, a story by David Almond, which he illustrated. It touched a and beautiful and the kind of thing that you get stuck and be surprised. Here is a review of the FPI blog ).

(And Dave McKean gave an interview on Bookslut about the new edition of Cage:

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_10_016702.php )

... There

The Graveyard Book it now in the States in paperback. I wanted the already mentioned several times, I forget it again and again. Here is the link to Amazon to prove it. And here is the link Indie Bound to buy it from an independent bookseller.

And here is a list of public libraries in the States, just in case you want to borrow it and read want.

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This I've got this morning from the Hurricane Intermediate School.

We are a library of a sixth-and seventh-graders school. A student came with the book Stardust to us and showed us on page 69, the word F ** K. If you do not want your students read this, you do not buy this book for the library and not for domestic use.

Very wise advice. Even if I do not really know why you should not buy at home when the students are not to read it. And I do not understand why I get the letter. But this is definitely a reason why was sold Stardust not just for the sixth year. It is a book for adults and it would get YALSA Award because it is a book for adults, teenagers like that, and it was published as a book for young adults in the States, but never as a children's book.

And because we spend level to the point, people from the wording or address, are

a sentence in the Graveyard book is called "mass graves are a good place to munch a meal." It is an attack on the Chinese. I know you meant it only funny, but I can not stand it!

I wrote back and said,

that we in English 'Plague pits is good eating "said. Were there Chinese Pestgruben? And can you explain to me why this is an insult to the Chinese? I would hate to have attacked the Chinese people unwittingly, and would like to know why it is offensive.

This was the answer

I'm sorry, the book which I read was a translation into Chinese, and the sentence you have written now - "Plague pits is good eating" - translated into Chinese means "tens of thousands of men were tortured to death and buried in pits." And between 1910 and 1930, when the Chinese government is very weak and the country from Western countries and Japan was colonized, the government could not defend its own people, so many workers from factories that have received funding from abroad, such as coal mines, died .

I know now that there is a translation error and it's not your fault.

shows the Chinese translation:

"Plague pits is good eating" in Chinese, if I translate, is " 鼠疫 坑 很好 吃 " and is not an insult. The translator wrote " 万人坑 很好 吃 " and that is insulting.

Aha. Apologies to all Chinese readers, who feel offended (although I know that this blog behind the Great Wall of China protection simply cut off and no one reading this ever will).

About http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-neil-gaiman-said.html Debbie Reese has correctly pointed out some time ago that I last year, something really stupid and offensive words, but I've been asked by the ABA, why not let the Graveyard Book play in the U.S. have. I think I have tried everything, more with my head than with my authors interviewee head to answer - and described how my potential cast of characters in a cemetery in the European style in a small U.S. city (such as the UK city in Graveyard Book ) perceived. I remember that I thought even then that I had said really a stupid thing. But silly things to come during an interview out of your mouth and then makes it more simple.

I was a bit upset because of the first post from Deb (mainly because I "but that obviously was not what I meant" reading) was also on Twitter, and was foolishly unfriendly, but when I called (from Pam Noles ) and again looked at the actual words they say, I noticed that people were very reasonable, what I said to indicated what I thought: namely a) that in the states before the arrival of white colonists in the 17th Century was no population, and / or b) that I dismissed the murder of the natives, and quite simply that c) the natives were kind of irrelevant in American history. (None of my intention. But only intention was to bring you so far.) And it also says no such thing as "dead Indians" and hidden, meant funny or not, the shadow of the sentence "only a dead Indian is a good Indian " out.

people asked me how I am with the phrase "a few dead Jews" in its place Interview had felt what I was also again a sense of guilt. For something that I have not thought of when I wrote the Graveyard Book , was to put some of my Jewish cemetery. I wanted, but neither the history nor the funeral worked.

Maybe I should Graveyard Book write history with some secret buried dead American Jews and some natives, who are far away from home.

Anyway, I apologize all those affected, especially Debbie Reese. has

My sister sent me the Graveyard Book to Halloween. I've just finished reading. I really enjoy until I came to an extra at the end of the book. Why you had to mention Stephen Colbert in her acceptance speech for the Newberry Medal? Now it will be forever on the back of the book. Too bad. Their stories will remain long after anyone knows who he was, let alone taking care of him drum. I think you should stop thinking ahead, and especially before you clog up your words and especially your Books with sudden needs.

why. Er. Because I wanted? Because it made my son happy that I was on his show and there is no sudden needs over the happiness of your children? Because it was a Newberry-acceptance speech, which was held in 2009 and it tells about things that were 2009 to date? Because Mr. Colbert Tolkien's description of Tom Bombadil cited?

Here is the link to the episode of the Colbert Report , which is in question. See if it changes your mind, I resenting correspondent. I have just a little vulnerable (I wear the suit I wore to the funeral of my father) and he is very friendly.

One of the things I love about your work so is that I always had the impression that you had worked out a consistent and relatively complete world that is the story. I've been trying for months to create such a world, and I'm at the point that my head says, explode it, if I do not now write down, but my problem is that I do not know where to start. When you start working on a story in a new universe is playing, what's the easiest way to start?

catch on with the story. Always. (Unless you're Lud in the Mist ). The world is there that the story happened to her. You do not tell the story of the world, until you have begun to tell the story that happens on the Isle of Man. You tell the story and background and history to come in when they are needed. The same applies to worlds that you build yourself.

The train grad into Penn Station.

This means that I barely even have time to pass the Big Best News of the day: that may have been the reason for the mess after the colony collapse investigated in hives http:// www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.htm

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Forbidden Books and Ig Nobels

THURSDAY, 30 September 2010, SENT BY NEIL 23:27

It is the BANNED BOOKS WEEK !

Would you like a reading list for graphic novels? The Huffington Post has a slideshow of the ten most requested Graphic Novels that should be banned ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/american-library-association/banned-books-2010-graphic-novels_b_740726.html # s145730

The list may surprise you.

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This evening, I stood on the stage of the Ig Nobel Awards . I sat in a series of seven seats, each made with a sheet of paper on which NOBEL LAUREATE, stood out on one, was on the feel Neil Gaiman, which delighted me at the same time and (in a good and almost affirmative manner) insignificant.

The Ig Nobels

are funny and well known and are based on a mixture of science and silliness.

I gave a speech --- a 24-second speech, followed by a summary consisting of seven words - on identification of authors. The theme of the evening were bacteria. I'll post a link when it goes online, so you you can watch a video of the evening and hear what I said. (And how quickly I've said it.)

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good. Off to bed. (Oh, if you're on Saturday in New York, Lemony Snicket would buy you an ice cream: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/44661-three -words-free-ice-cream.html )

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My week in pictures

Wednesday, 29 September 2010, SENT BY NEIL at 1:50

I got up especially early to blog about. The first mail I read was a request from Steven Moffat, Production Notes to write about my episode for Doctor Who Monthly and already the time for blogging was around again.

So instead of a thoughtful presentation of my last ten days, so I'm now on as I stopped recently, namely in pictures.

This i st Liam McKean, son of Dave McKean and Clare. He stands behind the garden thing that has made something peculiar and artistic and slightly spooky and has his sister Yolanda.

I had a wonderful day in McKean. We have blackberries and apples collected on their orchard.

This is Clare, above, as they gather blackberries. It also makes me fear and put myself in amazement that I know of the family now for over a quarter of a century.

Dave, below, has just finished his lunch at the George in Rye. I have agreed to a children's book called Fortunately, writing to THE MILK for him when I left him.

Accidentally I have many things that you can charge phones in their house forgotten, they will forget me So in any case.

I got the night at my daughter Holly (the one with the tactical eyes closed) and spent her roommate, my fearsome god-daughter Hayley Campbell, descendant of Eddie and Anne Campbell of Brisbane.

This is a photo by mistake in whimsy Black / White, Thea Gilmore and Nigel Stonier on the Radio 2 studio in Manchester the next night. Thea has released a great new album, Murphy's Heart, and here you can not hear what : http://www.theagilmore.net/welcome.cfm .

from here to Bristol, where I met Diana Wynne Jones, she went with the special-degree-as-I-got-host Robin McKinley. (For an account of their visit can be read on her blog: http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2010/09/23/fame-sort-of/ )

The last time I was here in April, it was Diana not so good. This time it was cheerful and happy. She is currently writing a new book and already know which book they want to write it and it will always remain one of my favorite people.

From an old friend to the next: Terry Pratchett and I have the following evening in Cardiff met at a sushi, due to mysterious reasons that we are yet to reveal now . And this is a picture of us as we toast to something not yet declared with champagne.

The next day was Doctor Who. Normally, writers on the set is not much to do, except connect to things and the way to be, but I had an interview with Doctor Who Confidential promised, I felt quite spoiled because I was able to do things, the authors make so much and usually only cause frown.

Such as himself in the storage room for props sneak and look Daleks, you can hug. (Fortunately, I have not seen a weeping angel.)

For example, an interview with Charlie McDonnell on the steps of the TARDIS
( http://charliemcdonnell.com/an-explanation / )


Or steal for example, a TARDIS, and the infinite void of time and to explore space and to fight evil wherever it occurs ...

Sorry. Did I really say now? I meant, of course, to get a picture of myself on the TARDIS set.

I said goodbye to director Richard Clark, and the remarkable Matt Smith (who can even mean something boring lines sound good) and leave Cardiff , the last train to Heathrow missed and shared so a taxi with a Greek doctor, who came from Swansea, and had missed his last train, too. A few hours sleep and then I flew to Boston ...

Where I worked on Sunday morning as a roadie for Evelyn Evelyn did while they were performing at the Yo Gabba Gabba ! Concerts to an audience consisting of three year olds and their parents.

They played "Elephant Elephant", what do you animated dolls here to view it.

I like this picture of her in the dressing room of the Wang Theatre.

Then I went over to Boston Public Library, where Karen Hesse, Jerry Spinelli, Grace Lin and I as a Literary Lights for Children received were: http://www.bpl.org/general/associates/literarylightschildren.htm

It was a wonderful event, full of enthusiastic school children and a subsequent signing. I spoke last and when I was finally his turn, had Jerry and Karen and Grace have said everything that could be said, I spoke about the importance of daydreaming and why you should occasionally look out the window or actually quite a lot .

gave my future mother-Kathy Monday evening for Amanda and me an engagement party, which is very nice of it was, and has a lot of fun. I have met many of Amanda's neighbors and friends and relatives and some of my cousins came to make up the numbers present again. (Here you can read the last days of Amanda's point of view in her blog .)

And yesterday I finally saw Amanda in Steven Bogart Cabaret production in ART Theatre. I will not rave about here now like this, because the last tickets were already sold out as the first highly laudatory reviews just been published. But it was masterful. The things that I during a screening during the sample had a problem, everyone was gone.

been to Cabarete is Amanda's Late Night Cabaret, an event without having a plan with the notable performer Meow Meow, and then Amanda itself Unfortunately I have no pictures of Meow Meows Crowd Surfing.

Below are the comments of the press from its website : understate you.

Meow Meow, accompanied by Lance Horne.

Amanda and Meow Meow in a duet of "Fake Plastic Trees".

The Late Night Cabaret takes place tonight, again, the tickets are cheap and get here until 20:30 https: / / www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8419705 or she buys it on entrance. Maybe you bring some flowers that you can throw at Meow Meows show. If you're in Boston, please come. You will like the Cheshire Cat says to see me there.