Neil Gaiman: Piracy Leads to More Book Sales
Neil Gaiman, author of the ‘Sandman’ graphic novels and best-seller ‘American Gods,’ talked about the pirating of his titles to OpenRight Group. Apparently, sales went up in Russia as his books were being pirated. As an experiment, he convinced his publisher to give…
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NEVERWEAR has a new limited edition poem/print coming out next week, in time for the Holidays. (Which matters to me, because they will also be my Xmas presents to the world.)
It’s a poem I wrote about art and death and metaphors and fish called Conjunctions, drawn by Jouni, who drew the THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME print.
You can read all about it, and pre-order a print here at Neverwear. The price is $38 while they’re still at the printer. (When they go officially onsale, in a week, they’ll be $48.)
“Check them out of your library. Your local librarian will be a fine source of information on scary books.”
I love this man.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.
Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.
There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.
”- A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman.
Word. About words.
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INSTRUCTIONS. The video of the book, read and written by me and drawn by Charles Vess.
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A Study In Emerald
A PDF file of a short story that won the Hugo Award. If you know anything about Sherlock Holmes or H. P. Lovecraft, you may enjoy this. If you don’t, it’ll probably be incomprehensible twaddle.
Me, eating an apple, aged four. Posted for Amanda. (Taken August 1965)
And Look! Sensible hair!
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