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  • November 25th, 2012 7:56pm

    ellenkushner:

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWORDSPOINT AUDIOBOOK!

    Exactly one year ago today, the first of my Riverside audiobooks, narrated by the author (who is me! myself!) went on sale from Audible via Neil Gaiman Presents. We’d spent months planning, recording, producing…. It was life-changing for me, a chance to both “act” my own novel, and to work with a team of gifted pros. And it ushered me into the world of audio voice talent for the Illuminated production including the great Simon Jones (Asper Lindley, Lord Horn), Katherine Kellgren (Diane, Duchess Tremontaine), Nick Sullivan (Lord Ferris), Dion Graham (Richard St Vier) and more!

     Since then, we’ve released the second book, The Privilege of the Sword – and the third, The Fall of the Kings, is in production now, scheduled for early spring. 

    This is a big Thank You to everyone who supported this artistic growth for me in any way – including saying, “You can do it!” … or, “Bought it; sounds great!” 


    Dreams can come true.

  • October 15th, 2012 12:04am

    taterpie:

    linaerys:

    I love these guys.

    I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree.

    Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down?

    If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.

    I love Henry Jenkins’ take. 

  • September 10th, 2012 1:27pm

    neil-gaiman:

    Damn — I just clicked “answer privately” on something I meant to answer publicly, and once you’ve answered privately it has gone from your inbox. So if you’re the person who had read Good Omens & needed a hand, write back.

    He seems like such a nice guy. 

  • August 14th, 2012 1:05am

    You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

    — Neil Gaiman – The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

  • August 8th, 2012 11:28pm

    I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

    — Neil Gaiman (via cityyandcolour)