Calm down

So I read this. And the reaction of some people to the New Yorker piece…is just…irritating. Clearly I am not impartial. However, some points I feel relevant on this: a) Neil G may not have said it and apologised. b) Even if he did say it, the comment has...

Day Thirty-One

And this blogger is really quite tired. The blog-post-a-day-for-a-month experiment is rolling to an end today and it’s been fun but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t running out of steam. Tomorrow, when I’m not retrieving my niece from climbing...

Obscurity

So tonight was the Neil Gaiman talk at the Open Rights Group event in Clerkenwell. I spent this morning writing but to be honest it wasn’t happening. I produced a short story of around fourteen hundred words but it wasn’t very good and I had been aiming to...

Review: The Graveyard Book

I’ve reviewed The Graveyard Book over at www.bookrater.co.uk: The story goes that it was a small cemetery near Gaiman’s house in the eighties, where he used to take his son to ride on his tricycle, that merged, in the author’s head, with The Jungle Book to...