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Neil Gaiman's Journal: started February 2001 when nobody knew what the word Blog meant. Talking about writing, comics, books, films, bees, demonic tomatoes, cats, travel and a dog ever since.

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February 2026

  1. Thank you

November 2025

  1. a little redux (a big redux?)

January 2025

  1. Breaking the Silence

September 2024

  1. Little, Big

June 2024

  1. Heritage Auction wrap up

April 2024

  1. The Dead Boys Detective Agency. It is a very silly name. But accurate.

March 2024

  1. In which I can now worry significantly less about something terrible happening to 126 things...

October 2023

  1. For Two Nights Only: A Christmas Carol

November 2022

  1. Unboxing the most expensive book I have ever paid for...
  2. A joint statement from Amanda and me
  3. Everything you've hoped is true!
  4. Just a note to say...

October 2022

  1. Bloody Sunrise

March 2022

  1. An Evening With Neil Gaiman

January 2022

  1. Letting the cat out...

November 2021

  1. Art and Climate

July 2021

  1. The Other Half of the Secret

June 2021

  1. Really bloody excellent omens...
  2. Excellent Portents

January 2021

  1. Reunited (and it feels so good)
  2. A New Year's Thoughts, and the old ones gathered.

October 2020

  1. Two New Books and a tawny owl in a pear tree

August 2020

  1. Susan Ellison - RIP and love

July 2020

  1. Sandman Audio Day
  2. Sandman Audio Adaptation
  3. Remembering Earl Cameron (1917-2020)

May 2020

  1. An Acceptance, in rough times
  2. An extremely apologetic post
  3. Where I am, what I'm doing, how I'm doing and how I got here
  4. A Quick Useful Blog about the Sandman Audio Project

March 2020

  1. On the Beach

December 2019

  1. A New Year's thought...
  2. Ocean at the End of the Night

November 2019

  1. An Ocean of Story
  2. Radio Secrets
  3. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Now Dead Again

September 2019

  1. A long catch up (and go and see Amanda Palmer's show)

April 2019

  1. Fox in Socks
  2. It's been a while...

December 2018

  1. That Was The 2018 That Was

June 2018

  1. Harlan Ellison

April 2018

  1. Another talk with Laurie Anderson

October 2017

  1. Wedding thoughts: All I know about love

June 2017

  1. For James Vance, and his family

May 2017

  1. The whole Cheesecake Menu Thing Explained, with photographs
  2. The Neil story (with additional footnote)

March 2017

  1. On Translations

February 2017

  1. Do I Actually Have or Need Diplomatic Immunity?
  2. Reading George Reynolds on the plane
  3. The Longest Day

January 2017

  1. California! Arizona! Seattle! Bard! Spend an Evening With Me.
  2. Another Year

December 2016

  1. Watch DEMOCRACY melting in water colours
  2. A huge thank you
  3. Where do you run?
  4. Many Candles: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  5. DO YOU WANT TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WHILE DOING GOOD? ER, AND ALSO GET SOME INTERESTING THINGS TO READ AND LISTEN TO?
  6. Want to hear me reading Norse Myths in Public? (London and New York)

October 2016

  1. Lifey Death Dances Again
  2. Waiting, and Cinnamon

September 2016

  1. On Dedications & Radio Plays
  2. It's Ash's first birthday, a bare chin is revealed... (and so are the next three Robert McGinnis covers)
  3. A cover revealed! A book exposed! A year mislaid!

July 2016

  1. Robert E McGinnis and the Secret of The New Cover
  2. The First American Gods Trailer

June 2016

  1. Doctor Doctor
  2. Prelude to Softly and Silently Vanishing Away

May 2016

  1. The View, and the Plan
  2. Finishing Things

April 2016

  1. Good Omens, Cheap Seats, and the Memorial

January 2016

  1. We Thought You Were Dead, with baby photos
  2. A New Year's Wish

October 2015

  1. TWO BABY PHOTOS! (And, oddly enough, some news too.)

September 2015

  1. A huge thank you, and some life and some death...
  2. Our Not-So-Humble Bundle.
  3. Holy Thundering Sludgebuckets! THANK YOU!
  4. Do YOU want to save THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS while DOING GOOD? Er, and also get some interesting things to read.
  5. How to help your family and save lives.

August 2015

  1. Have I Actually Been Eaten By A Bear?

July 2015

  1. “Behind the Trees”

June 2015

  1. After the Pause
  2. Existing in the pause

May 2015

  1. Drawing the Undrawable: An Explanation from Neil and Amanda.

April 2015

  1. Ursula at 85

March 2015

  1. The Facts of Death
  2. Terry Pratchett

February 2015

  1. Edging back to blogging

December 2014

  1. New Year's Wishes and gifts

November 2014

  1. Radio shows are like Buses...
  2. The Most Important Publishing Event In Our House

October 2014

  1. In Which I am About to go to Germany, Austria and France. Also, notPorn.
  2. In which you and I go to Tasmania together.

August 2014

  1. Seminudity of the daughter-embarrassing kind.

May 2014

  1. Why I am Smiling In This Picture
  2. How I discovered I had slipped into a parallel universe
  3. Important. Please read this now.
  4. In Jordan
  5. What are you doing on June the 27th and other vital questions

April 2014

  1. gal·li·mau·fry (noun) 1. a confused jumble or medley of things.
  2. Two New UK Book Covers, and a Small Philosophical Thought
  3. House thoughts, and some unanswered questions on art and commerce

March 2014

  1. Happiness in a new old house
  2. Look! A quick one with bargains in it.
  3. In Which It Is Demonstrated that I have become a Woodland Creature
  4. Storms and how they start

February 2014

  1. Tonight Live Streaming, and, hitherto unseen, a poem (unfinished)
  2. How does a Badger get to Carnegie Hall?
  3. EARLY WARNING USA... (and an exclusive cover reveal)
  4. Remembering Maggie Estep
  5. Why you should see WINTER'S TALE and other deep thoughts about stuff
  6. A short note from the Web Goblin in regards to the blogiversary challenge and the nature of completion.
  7. The Thirteen Clocks and the wonderful birthday
  8. NEWS: Watchmen, Sandman, Chu, Russia and the Clown-Shoes of Cthulhu
  9. American Gods TV series News -- and more...
  10. WATCH ME READ GREEN EGGS AND HAM. WATCH ME, WATCH ME, SAM I AM.

January 2014

  1. Actual NEWS. Also some hints of News yet to come. Also, rain.
  2. A poem about Invasions and Extinctions, written for Australia Day...
  3. Secrets and Books
  4. Secrets, a quiet life, and several random books by other people
  5. On Jogging, Bees, and Wordless.
  6. They say God Looks After Authors and Fools...
  7. Moving Day
  8. Life and Otherwise
  9. How I cope with the social media cravings, and in which I begin to become a blogger once again...

December 2013

  1. Where did I go? Out. What did I do? Nothing. OR, why I'm coming back to the blog once more...
  2. Like Odysseus he will return at last to slay this blog's suitors and regale us with tales of his adventures in the interim.

October 2013

  1. A Perfect Week
  2. Back from the Blog Dead.
  3. One Ordinary Day With Chris Riddell Doodles

September 2013

  1. IMPORTANT: Tickets and shows and life and death...
  2. Remembering Frederick Pohl, and a walk in the mist.

August 2013

  1. Urgent Letter From A Man Now Off Twitter, Tumblr & Tea
  2. ATTENTION: OCTOBER 15th ALERT. NB DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU.
  3. Fortunately, the book... (Explained)
  4. I bet you thought I was dead...

June 2013

  1. Publication Day! Links! Tired Neil!
  2. You have to be this tall to go on this ride
  3. Iain Banks. With or without the M.
  4. On Casting The Doctor

May 2013

  1. A giant TOUR catch up. Also, we wear the same boots.

April 2013

  1. (Not actually Science Fiction) Double Feature...
  2. It's a Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! World.
  3. Unnatural Creatures, and other things you don't see every day
  4. YOUR LONG, PAINFUL WAIT IS OVER! A Cover is Revealed!
  5. OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE US TOUR DATES

March 2013

  1. Princess, and some thoughts on writing
  2. A big post with a ridiculous amount of cool or important stuff in it
  3. Lives on Planes, Dances on Tables
  4. The Art of Asking

February 2013

  1. Now up! Read a Calendar of Tales. And make ART.

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