April 25th. DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. It's really good -- it's funny, it's smart, it's scary, and it even has a few familiar faces... (And no, you won't be cheating on Sandman or Good O...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2024/04/the-dead-boys-detective-agency-it-is.html
I spent yesterday in Dallas, at the Heritage Auction headquarters -- I had decided to auction off some artwork and memorabilia to benefit two charities (The Authors Literary Fund and the Hero I...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2024/03/in-which-i-can-now-worry-significantly.html
Thirteen years ago, I put on a Victorian Suit and a false beard and I read Dickens' prompt copy of A Christmas Carol at New York Public Library. It was a wonderful, sold out performance, introduc...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2023/10/for-two-nights-only-christmas-carol.html
I just filmed a little unboxing-and-enthusing video. It's for the 25th Anniversary editions of Little, Big or, The Fairies' Parliament, by John Crowley. Illustrated (or rather, with Art by) Peter...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/11/unboxing-most-expensive-book-i-have.html
Hullo, (Amanda is posting this on her blog as well.) After many years of marriage, we have made the difficult decision to divorce. While we will no longer be partners in marriage, we will rem...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/11/a-joint-statement-from-amanda-and-me.html
The rumours are true. Well, the good ones are, anyway. Netflix is delighted and thrilled that so many of you, all over the world, have been watching and loving Sandman, which means that the thing...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/11/everything-youve-hoped-is-true.html
Just a note to say that this blog has become rather dusty and abandoned over the last two or three years. But I think it's time for me to use it a lot more. At least until Google notices that the...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/11/just-note-to-say.html
Your humble web goblin here again, after a brief hiatus of eight and a half years. How time flies. "Remember when you hosted 13 Nights of Fright and got to lie in a coffin?" I was nonchal...
I start touring 6 weeks from now. It's the first time I've done something like this since before Covid -- get out there every night, read stories and poems and suchlike, answer questions and ...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2022/03/an-evening-with-neil-gaiman.html
So, let's see. I was the castaway on Desert Island Discs. This probably doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't from the UK. (You can hear it at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00120cb ...
I really ought to blog about making Good Omens (we're in week 4 of shooting) and making Anansi Boys (starts shooting next week), and about the astonishing Ocean at the End of the Lane play at the...
I mentioned that making Good Omens two is half of what I've been working on, and will be working on for next eighteen months, and I said I'd tell you soon enough what the other secret project I'v...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/07/the-other-half-of-secret.html
Many, many years ago (it was Hallowe'en 1989, for the curious, the year before Good Omens was published) Terry Pratchett and I were sharing a room at the World Fantasy Convention in Seattle, to k...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html
I'm still in New Zealand, and life is weird but good. Amanda and I are raising our small boy, and I love being swept along in his enthusiasms. Zombies was mostly replaced by Star Wars while...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/excellent-portents.html
It took a lot of work, but I'm happy to say that, after 9 months of missing each other, Ash and I are reunited. Lots of happy tears. I'm humbled and grateful to be here. Photo by Amanda...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/01/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good.html
It's 2021 in some places already, creeping around the planet. Pretty soon it will have reached Hawaii, and it'll be 2021 everywhere, and 2020 will be done. Well, that was a year. Kind of a year...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/12/a-new-years-thoughts-and-old-ones.html
It's a beautiful day in mid-Autumn on Skye and I'm not sure where the year went. This house came with an enormous walled meadow, which my neighbours use to keep their sheep in, and an ancient o...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/10/two-new-books-and-tawny-owl-in-pear-tree.html
I met Harlan Ellison the day before his wife, Susan, met him, in 1985, in Glasgow. I interviewed him. I didn't get to meet Susan until 1989, when I went to see Harlan in LA. She and I became fr...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/08/susan-ellison-rip-and-love.html
Today is the day that the first adaptation of Sandman is released. It's the first three graphic novels, PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES, THE DOLL'S HOUSE and DREAM COUNTRY, released, as full-cast ...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/07/sandman-audio-day.html
In 9 days, on the 15th of July, Audible will release the first of the SANDMAN audio adaptations. These are, well, full cast audiobooks of the first three SANDMAN graphic novels: Dirk Maggs ga...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/07/sandman-audio-adaptation.html
I'm taking a Social Media Holiday right now. It seems to be helping. But I couldn't let this pass... In 1996 we filmed the original Neverwhere television series (which I wrote for Lenny...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/07/remembering-earl-cameron.html
Last night, starting at at 1:00 in the morning, my time, was the Nebula Awards ceremony, held by the SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The first award they gave out was t...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/an-acceptance-in-rough-times.html
So. I did something stupid. I'm really sorry. The last blog I wrote, about how I had been here for almost three weeks, turned into news - and not in a good way. Man Flies 12000 Miles to De...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/an-extremely-apologetic-post.html
Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockdown on my own. I'm half a world away from Amanda and Ash, and missing both of them a lot. We check in on screens and phones twice a day, when I ge...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/where-i-am-what-im-doing-how-im-doing.html
Today, the news releases went out and now the world knows that James McAvoy is starring as Morpheus in the Audible.com adaptation of the first three volumes of Sandman, Preludes & Nocturnes, The...
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/05/a-quick-useful-blog-about-sandman-audio.html