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permalink #226 of 1905: Martha Soukup (soukup) Wed 5 Jul 00 17:32
    
Oh, well, you have a point.

My ink cartridge nozzle was clogged, it appears, but I think it's got
unclogged now.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #227 of 1905: Amanda Slack-Smith (ancient-booer) Wed 5 Jul 00 21:22
    
Neil, it has been mentioned to me that you have written a few plays,
is this true?  
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #228 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Wed 5 Jul 00 22:41
    
Amanda -- nope. A number of things have been adapted into plays, but
none of them by me (or to my satisfaction).
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #229 of 1905: Martha Soukup (soukup) Wed 5 Jul 00 23:47
    
You've got to do it yourself to have it done to your satisfaction.

In your copious free time.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #230 of 1905: Amanda Slack-Smith (ancient-booer) Thu 6 Jul 00 00:06
    
Is it an area you would like to dabble in?

Oh yeah, how do you feel about Alan Moore's 'The Birth Caul' differs
as a comic rather than the performance? I really enjoyed the comic but
I was wondering how how it felt as an audience member. (I am guessing
that you were there :P)
  
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permalink #231 of 1905: Elise Matthesen (lioness) Fri 7 Jul 00 20:46
    
Neil, how's the convention going so far? (Neil is Guest of Honor at
Convergence, in St. Paul, Minnesota, this weekend.)  The panel "West writes
about East" looked interesting; alas, I was stuck in d/u/r/a/n/c/e/ v/i/l/e/
the dealers' room all day. What transpired?
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #232 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Sat 8 Jul 00 20:30
    
Amanda -- yes, when I get time.

I never saw the Birth Caul -- heard the CD, then read the comic. I was
in the US when it was performed.


Elise -- they are very nice people but I'm pretty fried. Today was
panel, then lunch, then 90 minute panel forllowed by 90 minute reading
followed by 90 minute signing, followed by brain dead author going up
to his room and finding himself without the intellectual capacity to
read a book....
  
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permalink #233 of 1905: Martha Soukup (soukup) Sun 9 Jul 00 01:07
    
They're working you too hard!  It's not as bad as a con Greg Cox described
where he was toastmaster and they had him doing like half a dozen things
every day, but it's still too, too much.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #234 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Sun 9 Jul 00 08:04
    
Today is just a panel and a signing, so it should be bearable.
Yesterday was a total of 6 hours in front of an audience, which was a
bit much -- I felt a bit drained by the end of the final signing.

The bit I wrote for Amazon (on the 3rd)  about American Gods and 
when it will be published has so far not showed up. I wonder how long
it will take to appear.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #235 of 1905: Amanda Slack-Smith (ancient-booer) Mon 10 Jul 00 17:53
    
So do you win a 'Most Valiant' award if you manage to stay on your
feet? Or are they just assuming you share a few similarities with you
poor tortured character of Able? ie. he may be mince meat but give him
a few panels and he'll pull himself together. (sorry about the pun:P).

So what was it you were trying to read?
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #236 of 1905: Laurel Krahn (lakrahn) Wed 12 Jul 00 14:40
    
How was the Flash Girls reunion show?  Good, I hope.  Wish I could've been
there.  Surely hope you weren't so booked up that you couldn't be there .
. . 
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #237 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Wed 12 Jul 00 16:44
    
Amanda -- I read a couple of the short stories that are part of the
fabric of the novel AMERICAN GODS. (Of which I wrote about 10 pages
today, wahoo!)

Laurel -- it was a delight. Speaking as the writer of the song in
question, I found myself peculiarly thrilled to see that PERSONAL
THING, one of the new songs, is capable of causing people to break down
and cry. I knew it worked, but didn't know it worked that well.


The new CD -- PLAY EACH MORNING WILD QUEEN is, on the basis of Emma's
finished guitar & vocals, Lorraine's scratch track vocals and fiddle,
and Robin's finished percussion, easily their best album so far. It
sounds more like THEY do than MAURICE & I does -- that almost
crystalline symplicity.

They do ALL_PURPOSE FOLKSONG, which made me happy, too.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #238 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Wed 12 Jul 00 16:46
    
And the thing I wrote for Amazon.com on American Gods still isn't up
yet. How odd.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #239 of 1905: Laurel Krahn (lakrahn) Wed 12 Jul 00 22:21
    
That is odd.  Maybe they don't believe it's really you?  Or, I suppose,
they're really backlogged.
 
Yay! re the Flash Girls show and album.  The Flash Girls list has been far
too quiet, I'd been dying to hear *something* about how things went
. . . so thanks.  Eager to hear the new songs and to hear old faves like
All Purpose Folk Song!  Whee!
 
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #240 of 1905: Elise Matthesen (lioness) Wed 12 Jul 00 22:26
    
I saw you on Sunday, heading out to what was presumably a late breakfast or
an early lunch; I was coming into the hotel for the opening of the dealers
room with Moe, the beadmaking lady. Looked like Will and Emma were in the
pack, too -- unless that was another time you zoomed by, and I've gotten
them mixed up.

Am looking forward to the new CD intensely, but did no get to hear them (for
more than a song or two -- I heard the one about the poisoned tea, as I was
going yon, and caught the final verse on the way back hither) in concert at
the convention, alas. Emma ducked into the dealers room afterwards and said
that she showed the crowd her new necklace, which tickled me; did Lorraine
show you "Three Souls and  Riddle" yet? (Emma took hers as an Artist's
Challenge piece, which means something will get written. Her necklace is
called "The Buddha in Ireland." Bet it'll be a song.) Am very curious about
PERSONAL THING, and will procure the CD as soon as it's real. (Gonna do a CD
release thing at Dreamhaven, maybe?)

Amazon.com works in mysterious ways, they say.

By the way, "Three Souls and a Riddle" was built after watching the movie
"Rouge" -- thanks again for lending it to Mike and me. (That's why I've been
so anxious for you to see it, and why I was so glad that Lorraine got it,
since then I knew you would see it, since in a roundabout way you are the
source of the thing. Midwife, at least. Or something like that.)

Your youngest offspring is growing at a pace that makes me think of time-
lapse photography and my own aging process. I hope those are serious
pumpkins, is all I can say. She obtained from my table a purple satin ribbon
with a mysterious blue bead on it, and agreed to try to figure out what sort
of magic it was. If anything stranger than usual materializes, you might ask
whether she's had any luck with it yet.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #241 of 1905: Elise Matthesen (lioness) Wed 12 Jul 00 22:28
    
(the lovely and talented Laurel Krahn slipt.)
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #242 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Thu 13 Jul 00 22:58
    
Laurel -- it is an Amazon.com mystery -- I e-mailed Therese Littleton
asking her if she can sort it out.

let's see what else I can tell you about the Flash Girls album...
well, it's named after some magnetic poetry. Anne Bobby (of Cop Rock,
Nightbreed and a few other things fame) does backing ghost-waltz vocals
on Personal Thing which is a weird sort of collaborative song -- I
wrote it when I was 17, but rewrote the lyrics about 6 months ago as I
realised that a lot of the words were sort of trite and a lot of the
rhymes were sort of approximate, and I'm pickier now.


Elise -- sounds about right. "THree Souls" is lovely -- and I'm so
pleased you liked Rouge. One of the really good films.

maddy grows and grows and it almost scares me...

Went out to the cabin today to work, but it was 90 degrees and i was
cooking more than i was writing, so I came home, and only got 4 pages
written. Sigh.

Off to NEcon tomorrow for a few days.
  
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permalink #243 of 1905: Martha Soukup (soukup) Thu 13 Jul 00 23:44
    
If the Well's <grifter> still worked at Amazon, he could sort it out for
you.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #244 of 1905: Ron Hogan (grifter) Fri 14 Jul 00 08:13
    

This is true, but it would mostly involve telling Therese. *grin*

It's probably backlog, although there's a slim possibility that the
people in charge of updating the author comments database didn't
believe it was really Neil. Which would add him to an illustrious
roster including Stephen King and Steve Martin. God, on the other
hand, had no problem getting his author comments up for the Bible.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #245 of 1905: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 14 Jul 00 10:42
    

Whoa!  Sorry I missed that!
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #246 of 1905: gone (scraps) Sun 16 Jul 00 15:36
    

Anne Bobby!  The universe continues to shrink.  
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #247 of 1905: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Wed 19 Jul 00 20:44
    
Ron - I'm sure that Therese will sort it out (fingers crossed).

Scraps -- it does? There are only 500 real people in the universe and
they all know each other. Once you know that it all becomes easy.

...

NECON was fun, in a nightmarish 200 people in a holiday camp sort of
way. Home again now.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #248 of 1905: Elise Matthesen (lioness) Wed 19 Jul 00 21:10
    
Do you get to stay home for a bit now?
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #249 of 1905: Martha Soukup (soukup) Wed 19 Jul 00 21:21
    
But I don't know most of the people you know, Neil.  I think you made them
up.
  
inkwell.vue.73 : Neil Gaiman - SANDMAN:THE DREAM HUNTERS
permalink #250 of 1905: Amanda Slack-Smith (ancient-booer) Wed 19 Jul 00 22:18
    
I hope your right Martha...It would help me sleep easier...
  

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