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Neil Gaiman Wants You As His Co-Author

By on February 8, 2013 in News 3

If the BlackBerry smartphone dies at the hands of iPhone and Android, it won’t be because the marketing team failed to rope in pop culture luminaries. Following the rather embarrassing announcement of iPhone user Alicia Keys as BlackBerry ambassador, Neil Gaiman is being promoted as a BlackBerry toting superhero of artistic collaboration:

Neil Gaiman is one of today’s best-loved authors. He famously collaborates with artists across the globe to create graphic novels, books, films, music and poetry.

Now he wants to collaborate with you.

Neil wants you to inspire him with themes for A Calendar of Tales. He’ll develop a collection of twelve tales from your ideas and then invite you to submit illustrations, choosing his favourite for each tale. This collection will transform into an amazing calendar showcasing your illustrations beside Neil’s stories.

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Neil Gaiman: Back To Blogging

By on July 27, 2010 in News 1

Carolyn Kellogg discusses the significance of Neil Gaiman’s first blog post in a month, in the Los Angeles Times:

Neil Gaiman writes just about everything: books for adults, young adults and kids; comic books; film and television scripts; short stories; poetry; posts on Twitter and a lively blog. But lately he’s found that he can’t write everything at once. In late June, he stopped posting on his blog in order to focus on a couple of scripts. He was writing a screenplay adaptation of his bestseller, “Anansi Boys,” and turning in the sixth — but not quite last — draft of his script for “Doctor Who.” After almost a four-week blog hiatus, Gaiman returned on Friday.

Just as the draft of Anansi Boys was handed in, the word came down from the powers behind Doctor Who that I was going to have to do another draft…

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Neil Gaiman: If You Read This Book The World Will End

By on May 17, 2010 in News 5
Source: The Hypothetical Library. (C) 2010 Charles Orr

Source: The Hypothetical Library. (C) 2010 Charles Orr

Such a cool idea: a graphic designer’s site with cover art for imaginary books. Neil Gaiman obviously likes it too as he’s submitted a title to designer Charles Orr, and this is the result:

Mr. Gaiman provided a very different kind of proposal. Here it is as I received it.

“The trouble with imagining a book I would never write is that when I think of it, I think ‘but I could WRITE that…’

So it would have to be a book of books I would never write. A book of ideas I would never have. A book of things I would never do in prose or in fiction. A book of things that should have remained unwritten, fragments and dreams and moments. Secrets too terrible to be learned. Things that would destroy me if I knew them, or hurt my friends. It would contain the secret name of God, and tell you how to pronounce that name.

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