A Conversation With Neil Gaiman. Claire E. White. The Internet Writing Journal, March 1. Bestselling novelist. For one thing, his fans treat him more like a rock star. Media handlers hand out numbers to the hundreds. Gaiman modestly attributes the fainting. The rock star connection. Tori Amos. singing about him on her albums Little Earthquakes. Pink and Boys for Pele. Gaiman was born in 1. Portchester, England. An avid reader, he knew early on that writing was. After stints as a journalist and. Time Out. The Sunday Times, Punch and The Observer. Soon after, the graphic novel series for. Sandman series, was born. Sandman has won every major. World Fantasy Award for best. In its later years, Sandman outsold Superman. Sandman sells over a million copies a year the. Warner Brothers has optioned. Sandman, and it is currently in development. He was also co originator and co editor of The Utterly Comic Comic Relief. Comic Relief charity in 1. He was co author with Terry Pratchett, of Good Omens, a bestseller. U. K. Other books include the cult hit Ghastly Beyond Belief 1. Dont Panic 1. 98. Now We Are Sick. His essays have appeared in Horror 1. Best Books and. 1. Great Detectives. Neverwhere Avon, 1. London about an ordinary man who, after helping a wounded girl he. London while. he is fast losing visibility in the real world. Neverwhere. was a television series produced by the BBC, which was. As a novel, Neverwhere. Neverwhere. is slated to be made into. Jim Henson Productions. Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish White Wolf Publishing, 1. Newsweek. as one of the Best Childrens Books of 1. Scholastic for. inclusion in its recommended reading list. His work has appeared in translation in. Italy, Spain, Holland, Norway, Germany, France, Brazil, Sweden. Finland. His most recent novels published in the U. Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman' title='Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman' />S. Smoke and Mirrors Avon, 1. Stardust Spike, 1. After finding the perfect, Gothic style house, he. Britain to Minnesota, where he now lives with his wife and. When hes not writing, touring or seeing to the myriad film projects he has. Neil spoke to us about. Tori Amos. What did you like to read when you were growing up Anything. I was a reader. My parents. Before weddings, funerals. Because if they didnt, then the book. Id be found in a corner. That was who I was. I did. I was the kid with the book. Now having said that, I tended. Good Omens By Terry Pratchett Neil GaimanSF, be it fantasy, be it horror. But I was definitely the. The great thing about being in school in England. And the schools being fairly old. We pick the nice and accurate actors we would like to see in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchetts Good Omens. Fantasy author April 28, 1948March 12, 2015. A Knight Bachelor i. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, he was described as the most shoplifted author in. Selon Terry Pratchett, un crivain doit lire normment, que ce soit dans son genre littraire ou en dehors 46, jusqu saturation 10. Pour lui, lcriture. Terry Pratchett verffentlichte sein erstes Werk mit 13 Jahren. Es war die Kurzgeschichte The Hades Business, die erst in der Schlerzeitung und spter im Science. That was the last time they went out on a big book buying. And a few things had turned up in the 3. Id get to read these. Id sit up there devouring the complete works of Edgar Wallace or G. K Chesterton. In fact, I remember my first encounter with Lord of the Rings was the first. Bg2hK6.jpg' alt='Good Omens Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman' title='Good Omens Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman' />Wikiquote contiene citazioni di o su Neil Gaiman contiene immagini o altri file su Collegamenti esterni. EN Sito ufficiale di Neil Gaiman, su neilgaiman. The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two. Towers. It was all they had in the library, so I read them over and over again. And when I was about twelve I won the school English prize and they said, What would you like as a present You get a book. I said please can I have the Return of the King, so that I can find out what happens. I understand that you also spent time as a journalist in your early years. How do you get your start Well, to start off, when I was writing fiction I was failing to. I was writing. I was very young. Although I did not. I thought that it was to do with who I knew and what I knew. In retrospect, Id say. Recently, I was talking to a Hollywood producer. Did you ever write a Sherlock Holmes. Well I wrote a Sherlock Holmes. I was about twenty and Ive still got it in. I pulled out the file and started reading. Do. I have a writing career in front of me Id say. Learn a trade. So that was scary. I was failing to sell. I was getting lots of rejection slips back. I got up one morning and I said, Ok, either I have no. I do not choose to believe for reasons. I am going about this the wrong way. I really dont know how the world works, so from tomorrow. I am going to be a freelance journalist. Im. going to learn how the world works and Im going to. Im going to figure all. And that was what I did. I. was very lucky because I made this decision at a time. England when lots and lots of magazines and newspapers. Coincidentally. around the time that I stopped, they stopped. There was. no freelance work in England for around five years. These. days theres lots and lots of freelance work, although they. Remembering how hard it was to make a living back then. Installing Php5 On Apache 2.2. I wonder how do these people do it now So I went out and. Writer and Artist Yearbook. Pretty soon I. found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went. I thought, Gee, it was easy to talk. I wonder if theyre going. I wound up for. years after on my typewriter. Back when I had my typewriter. I had a little quote from Muddy Waters on it which said, Dont. This was a reminder that I was very good at talking myself. Then Id have to find out if I could do it. Kind of the wrong. That. feeling of sort of terrified adrenaline. Ok here I am. with a book contract, what do I do. I was first asked who Id worked for and what Id done. I have to confess that I lied appallingly. I listed all the people Id like to write for, figuring that there was no way this editor was going to ring up every other editor in the world and say, Has this guy ever written for you Although what is very, very peculiar is now, looking back at it, over the next five years I did write for absolutely everybody on my list. Which means that, although I thought at the time that I was lying, I was merely slightly anachronistic. Temporally challenged. So I was a journalist and wrote about three nonfiction books and would occasionally publish short stories, of which its probably most significant that at least three of those first few short stories have never been republished in any collection. Because they were awful. How they got published, I dont know. But I did actually put two of them into my short story. Angels of Visitation. The one called. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale and there was one called. The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Because. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale proved to be an. Smoke and Mirrors. I dont know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody. I look all I get to see. Thats one reason why I love collaborating. I can look at. it and enjoy it. Whereas on something thats mine I tend. Why did I put that comma there. I look at Smoke and Mirrors now and Im feeling. Its a nice, serious. Kingsley Amis. once said about how he handled bad reviews, I let them spoil. I dont let them spoil my lunch. Im somebody. But. But your reviews have been marvelous. Yes, the reviews have been marvelous. In the case of Smoke and Mirrors, its the thing that Ive enjoyed most of all. And what Ive really enjoyed is that. Except that, as the reviews keep coming in, everybodys choice of what the highlight of the book is changes. One. persons highlight of the book is another persons, Why on Earth did you put that in there Which wound up leaving me feeling very comfortable about the book. Its a big enough, serious enough book, and there are enough things in there. Nobody is expected to like everything in there, not even me. But everybody seems to like the book itself, which, for a collection of short fiction, is amazing. Normally, publishing a collection of short fiction these days is akin dropping rose petals into the Grand Canyon and waiting to hear the boom.