Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
What?  No one has pointed out that Neil linked to their picture on his
blog?

http://kittysneverwear.blogspot.com/2008/04/wearing-nverwear.html

Obviously, this is something we should share with each other...
  

    
You are an evil man, sir.

(Note the pince-nez!)
  

    
Nice shot of you, Dan! 
  

    
Thank you.  My photographer-wife[1] took it.  The round lenses don't
suit me, but I can't resist pince-nez.


1. http://www.blueberry-studios.com/
  

    

> can't resist pince-nez

don't they give you a nasal headache?
  

    
They didn't after the first week, during which I began wearing them
for short periods and then slowly increased the duration.

I also have pince-nez sunglasses.

The real trouble is when you're out in the sun and the bridge of your
nose gets sweaty.  Mine begin to slowly slip, rotating away to be
perpendicular to my face rather than parallel.  Which demonstrates that
they aren't so tight as to cause a sinus headache, I suppose.
  

    
Sky and Winter McCloud ask Neil questions:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16044
  

    
Should we have our own Graveyard Book discussion without Uncle?
  

    

I miss Neil.  I'm a newbie on Twitter, and this topic reminded me to go 
see if he's there so I can follow him.

He is, and, curiously, so is Neil Gaiman's Fibulua and Neil Gaiman's 
Tibia, each of which has numerous followers.

Neil has followers numbering in the low 6 figures.
  

    
I can't follow Neil on Twitter - I will miss all of my friends' tweets
in all of his noise.

I do follow The Fabulous Lorraine, because, well, how could I not?
 
  

    
I have two twitter accounts: one for my friends and one for fandom. 
Sometimes I kick friends over to the fandom account if they're too
noisy.

ItLs been a crazy time to be Neil, I think.
  

    

Neil hasn't been in my circle of awareness for quite some time, so I don't 
know what he's up to, therefore don't know why now is a crazy time for 
him, although I take your word for it.

And I still haven't seen Coraline, although I seriously want to.
  

    
Well, Coraline came out and he won the Newbery, which, to borrow a
term, caused him to level up.  Amulet of Fame +10 FTW.  And his father
died.  And he went on the Colbert Report.  Crazy times.
  

    

Oh, didn't know about his father.  My condolences, Neil, if you're 
watching.

I didn't know he went on Colbert!  When was that?  I gotta go look for 
that episode.
  

    
Colbert did a bit about The Graveyard Book winning the Newbery (really
funny) and then a week or two later had Neil on to grill him in
person.

Neil's "GRRM is not your bitch" post yesterday has set fandom a'flame.
 The traffic spike is delicious.  I want to compare it with his
various compyright/DRM-related posts that get linked by BoingBoing to
see how it stacks up.
  

    

Where was that post and what's GRRM??
  

    
see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin
  

    
google works for me too

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html
  

    
I read an interesting rebuttal this morning in which the rebuttor
argued that, buy offering the first book in a series for sale, the
author was entering into a social contract with the buyer to finish the
series.

I think it's a good thought, but not the case.  I think that we, as
readers, wish it were the case, but it isn't.  If, for example, the
first book doesn't sell well, the publisher is not obligated the
release the second.  That a book does sell well does not mean,
retroactively, that all those who bought it were entering into a social
contract.

It's the same with tv shows.  Me watching Sarah Connor and Dollhouse
does not obligate Fox to continue broadcasting them.  Unfortunately.
  

    

I know exactly what you mean!  I loved Eli Stone, but they pulled the plug 
without warning or even asking my opinion about it.  Unbelievably rude.

I also love that Journal post by Neil, and it reminds me, yet again, of 
why I love Neil.

It's a good lesson for me, too.  I've been reading Jim Butcher's Dresden 
series, and right in the middle of it, Butcher decides he'd rather write 
fantasy, and I'm all out of sorts about it.  I want to read the next 
Dresden, damn it, and I want it now!  So forget abut that fantasy crap and 
get to work.

But he didn't and the next book came out when it came out, and by then I'd
lost interest and forgotten all about it, and still haven't bought it.  
Part of that is kind of like feeling rejected by a very promising lover,
who still wants me and wants me to want him, but I only hear from him
every year or so and in the meantime, I'm hearing about the other lovers 
he's spending his time with, the way he used to do with me, and why should 
I waste my time when he does show up because I know he's just going to 
break my heart again.
  

    
I know just how you feel.