2007–2026
1,248 posts
2026 1
February 2026
2025 2
November 2025
January 2025
2024 4
September 2024
June 2024
April 2024
March 2024
2023 1
October 2023
2022 7
November 2022
- Unboxing the most expensive book I have ever paid for...
- A joint statement from Amanda and me
- Everything you've hoped is true!
- Just a note to say...
October 2022
March 2022
January 2022
2021 6
November 2021
July 2021
June 2021
January 2021
2020 10
October 2020
August 2020
July 2020
May 2020
- An Acceptance, in rough times
- An extremely apologetic post
- Where I am, what I'm doing, how I'm doing and how I got here
- A Quick Useful Blog about the Sandman Audio Project
March 2020
2019 8
December 2019
November 2019
September 2019
April 2019
2018 3
December 2018
June 2018
April 2018
2017 10
October 2017
June 2017
May 2017
- The whole Cheesecake Menu Thing Explained, with photographs
- The Neil story (with additional footnote)
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
2016 20
December 2016
- Watch DEMOCRACY melting in water colours
- A huge thank you
- Where do you run?
- Many Candles: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- DO YOU WANT TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WHILE DOING GOOD? ER, AND ALSO GET SOME INTERESTING THINGS TO READ AND LISTEN TO?
- Want to hear me reading Norse Myths in Public? (London and New York)
October 2016
September 2016
- On Dedications & Radio Plays
- It's Ash's first birthday, a bare chin is revealed... (and so are the next three Robert McGinnis covers)
- A cover revealed! A book exposed! A year mislaid!
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
January 2016
2015 15
October 2015
September 2015
- A huge thank you, and some life and some death...
- Our Not-So-Humble Bundle.
- Holy Thundering Sludgebuckets! THANK YOU!
- Do YOU want to save THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS while DOING GOOD? Er, and also get some interesting things to read.
- How to help your family and save lives.
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
2014 37
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
- In Which I am About to go to Germany, Austria and France. Also, notPorn.
- In which you and I go to Tasmania together.
August 2014
May 2014
- Why I am Smiling In This Picture
- How I discovered I had slipped into a parallel universe
- Important. Please read this now.
- In Jordan
- What are you doing on June the 27th and other vital questions
April 2014
- gal·li·mau·fry (noun) 1. a confused jumble or medley of things.
- Two New UK Book Covers, and a Small Philosophical Thought
- House thoughts, and some unanswered questions on art and commerce
March 2014
- Happiness in a new old house
- Look! A quick one with bargains in it.
- In Which It Is Demonstrated that I have become a Woodland Creature
- Storms and how they start
February 2014
- Tonight Live Streaming, and, hitherto unseen, a poem (unfinished)
- How does a Badger get to Carnegie Hall?
- EARLY WARNING USA... (and an exclusive cover reveal)
- Remembering Maggie Estep
- Why you should see WINTER'S TALE and other deep thoughts about stuff
- A short note from the Web Goblin in regards to the blogiversary challenge and the nature of completion.
- The Thirteen Clocks and the wonderful birthday
- NEWS: Watchmen, Sandman, Chu, Russia and the Clown-Shoes of Cthulhu
- American Gods TV series News -- and more...
- WATCH ME READ GREEN EGGS AND HAM. WATCH ME, WATCH ME, SAM I AM.
January 2014
- Actual NEWS. Also some hints of News yet to come. Also, rain.
- A poem about Invasions and Extinctions, written for Australia Day...
- Secrets and Books
- Secrets, a quiet life, and several random books by other people
- On Jogging, Bees, and Wordless.
- They say God Looks After Authors and Fools...
- Moving Day
- Life and Otherwise
- How I cope with the social media cravings, and in which I begin to become a blogger once again...
2013 37
December 2013
- Where did I go? Out. What did I do? Nothing. OR, why I'm coming back to the blog once more...
- 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
September 2013
- IMPORTANT: Tickets and shows and life and death...
- Remembering Frederick Pohl, and a walk in the mist.
August 2013
- Urgent Letter From A Man Now Off Twitter, Tumblr & Tea
- ATTENTION: OCTOBER 15th ALERT. NB DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU.
- Fortunately, the book... (Explained)
- I bet you thought I was dead...
June 2013
- Publication Day! Links! Tired Neil!
- You have to be this tall to go on this ride
- Iain Banks. With or without the M.
- On Casting The Doctor
May 2013
April 2013
- (Not actually Science Fiction) Double Feature...
- It's a Books! Books! Books! Books! Books! World.
- Unnatural Creatures, and other things you don't see every day
- YOUR LONG, PAINFUL WAIT IS OVER! A Cover is Revealed!
- OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE US TOUR DATES
March 2013
- Princess, and some thoughts on writing
- A big post with a ridiculous amount of cool or important stuff in it
- Lives on Planes, Dances on Tables
- The Art of Asking
February 2013
- Now up! Read a Calendar of Tales. And make ART.
- A Calendar of Tales Update, and Two Covers.
- AN AMAZING THING CAN NOW BE REVEALED
- A VERY late Blog, about trying to make art with a lot of people, including you...
- The Best Advice
- Pre-signed copies of OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE available now (USA only)
January 2013
- Frankly, much too much stuff for one poor blog post to hold...
- Life Goes On, with additional Awesome, the aftereffects of a hurricane & a firestorm
- The Power of the Dog. Cabal (2003-2013)
- Chu's Day: a history and a signing...
- Amazing Book Cover Announcements and throwing up in anniversary gutters
- My New Year's Wish...
2012 56
December 2012
- Being Green
- Several Lomo photographs
- On the Glorious Last US Booksigning Tour, with digressions onto Concorde and Australia
November 2012
October 2012
- All my yesterday. Also a mouse.
- Post Koko Ruminations
- SOMETHING REALLY COOL IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane & other bits of publishery news
- Hat Chronicles...
- Conjunctions.
September 2012
- A quick one, while the wife is away
- Taking A Story Out In Public...
- A Letter from a Scared Actress.
- In which I am Unchained...
- On the road
- Hugo is The Doctor's Wife
August 2012
- If you are anywhere near Bard, come and be my Guinea Pig
- Neil Armstrong
- Leavings and Partings
- Harry Harrison
July 2012
- The middle of nowhere
- Post-premiere thoughts. Also a grave box.
- And by the way, here is some actual news:
- on Stardust and Chu and 5 books, three of which are already written
- Clarity in Stardust Editions and Amanda becomes canvas
- Tesla Coils, A Stardust Cover, A Sinister Photograph of Beautiful Women, and a small and unfortunate murder.
- An Evening With in Edinburgh. Also, falling asleep.
June 2012
- Edinburgh in August #1
- Running Saws
- The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury: In Memoriam and In Green Town Illinois
- Ray Bradbury
- Graduation, and further commencement fall-out...
May 2012
- The Last Kickstarter Post
- Quick Useful Sandman Slipcase post
- A Preamble to a photograph
- The unlikeliness of the long-distance golf-ball-headed chisel-wielder...
- Trust me, I'm a Doctor * (*Honorary, of Fine Arts)
- Maurice Sendak: "Cannibals and Psychotics"
- An extremely exciting week
April 2012
- Happy Birthday Amanda, and the Future of Music
- Popular Writers: A Stephen King interview.
- Slow Motion Bees...
March 2012
February 2012
- It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap Year Day!
- Who is Jonathan Carroll and why should you care?
- One morning with Nebula Nominations
- Small useful post with additional poem
- America Will Eat you
January 2012
2011 77
December 2011
- My New Year Wish
- On New Year's Eve Where I Am.
- Good evening Melbourne (and everywhere else)
- Good MOORNING Sydney!
- It's beginning to look a lot like a Christmas Card out there
- Audiobooks: A Cautionary Tale
November 2011
- The Simpsons and the Other Mother
- On Doughnuts, Posters, and remembering Anne McCaffrey
- Hey Hey We're, er, on the Simpsons.
- Home Again, Home Again, Coughetty Cough
- Birthday Wishes
- If this is thursday then where on earth did the last week go?
October 2011
- "Neil Gaiman Presents" is open for business!
- The Back-seat Book Club and the Egg Salad
- Thoughts on joining a club that would have me as a member
- All Hallows Read News, and stuff.
- I bet you think it's easy just to eat a banana and not say anything
- One Ordinary Day with autumn leaves
- WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK UNLESS YOU WORK IN A MUSEUM AND HAVE THE SECURITY CAMERAS OFF
September 2011
- Not just procrastinating on proofreading...
- A Picture of the Cat of Doom
- The Moon over the Corn Field
- Memory
- Actually Quite Glad to be Gaiman.
- The tour and the kickstarter
August 2011
July 2011
- "From the Desk of Mr Amanda F Palmer"
- Tangled like ivy
- A Late Night July the Third Post that took a while to finish
June 2011
- Wits
- From the 19th floor, with dogs
- Happy Solstice. And Publication Day.
- A Fairly Humongous Doctor Who Q&A Mostly
- Useful stuff, mostly
- Tour Dates From a Vanishing Author
May 2011
- Adventures in the Screen Trade
- Life, and other Spoilers
- Weasel-necked pencils. Part I hope the last.
- The Opinions of a Pencil-necked Weasel-thief...
April 2011
- SUPERGROUP MADNESS!
- No. I will not write a diet book. But this worked for me...
- Blog about SAAPM and baby photo
- Adult Residents of the Continental 48 States! You Can Be In A Real Full Cast AudioBook!
- One book (Neverwhere) one city (Chicago)
- If this is thursday then I must be at home
March 2011
- Hang on, I thought, if I read this in a book I'd be a bit worried
- Being Alive. Mostly about Diana.
- the view from the ice storm
- points of departure
- A quick in and out
- Goo is what tape is all about. Goo is what makes it tape instead of *paper*.
- confessions of a time traveler
February 2011
- Everything's coming up Goblin!
- He's leaving home (bye-bye)
- One of those slightly random too-long posts filled with peculiar stuff not to mention a recipe for Wil Wheaton
- In Which I am worried by an Earthquake, and Memories of a Reproductive meal in Warsaw
- Snow. And the Holly Naming Conversation Redux
- The King of Pain Explained. An Absence of Northern Lights.
- Catch Up (and Entitlement Issues once again)
- What I did in New York, with a digression into fitness and daydreaming a long way from the ball
- Be my Valentine and Memories of a Very Fat Cat
- In Which Two Things Are Done For the First Time, and We Encounter Bats
- Death, and Free revisited.
- Nasally Inserted Wake Up Kittens Redux
- This is fun.
- Now We Are TEN.
- It's nearly Ten
- Once you've got a lamppost...
- Sun
January 2011
2010 111
December 2010
- Nicholas Was Redux and a small public service announcement
- The view from Lantern Waste
- LAMP POST!
- Twas the night before Christmas and all through the blog...
- Nicholas really really Was, wasn't he?
- Banana, Tomato, Schedule.
- I have Mythological Dimensions. You cannot see them, but they are there.
- Cats in the Sauna and Boiling Water Tricks
- Snow and Smodcasts
- They are calling it Snowmageddon
- In Which John Cameron Mitchell Meets Girls At Parties...
- Things that go Bump in the Night and other dangerous nighttime problems
- The anatomy of snowbirds
- The Dog Ate My Homework.
- There's a Weeping Angel In My Honey and Other True Things
November 2010
- A Coffee Table Book and why reality is being replaced by small pieces of paper
- The Wedding Mystery Explained
- Drive-by blogging
- Where I am and what I am doing. Also, Dogs.
- A gallimaufry.
- The Price of "The Price".
- Not really much of a blog post, but with the best photo in the world of me on a carousel ever in it so with luck nobody will mind too much
- Not the post it ought to be
October 2010
- It's he.........eere....
- "Neil Gaiman? What are you doing in my falafel?"
- Not Wearing My T-Shirt and vibrating ducks
- A Modest Proposal (that doesn't actually involve eating anyone)
- Nine pictures from my life (and one drawing)
- The Sandman Menu Defacement Perplex
- Personal Assistants and Why I am lucky
- Big Blog on a train
- Banned Books and Ig Nobels
September 2010
- My Week In Pictures
- Interim peregrinatory post, with some photos
- A Spectrum of Stuff
- New Yorker Festival Information. Also treeclimbing.
- Had we but world enough, and plums.
August 2010
- It was pretty damn wonderful actually
- Where I am and what I'm doing
- Not a Maddy's birthday post. Actually about four other things.
- You're Sixteen, you're Beautiful, and You're Very Much Your Own Young Lady.
- Turned up to Eleven
- The Truth is a Reading In The Sydney Opera House
- The Sydney Signing Situation
July 2010
- Australia and the Magic Quiff
- Cutting stuff, watching parking meters, getting graphic in Sydney
- Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible
June 2010
- Amazingly gratified...
- Sire! I have News!
- this is the way "Cabal Fortnight" ends...
- I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now.
- I'm sweet and I'm cuddly. (I'm gonna kill Scully!)
- Despatches from an Alternate Universe
- he's certainly no Buck
- RT @neilhimself: Possibly not entirely unexpected news
- Andre may have a posse, but Cabal has a cabal.
- Welcome to Cabal Week!
- Not dead yet
May 2010
- When We Were Very Young
- One Book, One Twitter, One Wondering Author, One Wandering Character
- A Political Football in A Teacup
- What I did to celebrate National Library Week (part two) (and other stuff)
April 2010
- Stopgap
- What I Did to Celebrate National Library Week Part One: Vonnegut and Rollergirls
- Useful Information. Plus added Creepy Doll...
- In Which My Matter Duplication Ray Is Almost Perfected
- Just Happiness
- How to Mortify Your Daughter
- Four Hives Of Bees and things on my kitchen table...
March 2010
- Three Quarters of The Way Around the World...
- Another Post From The Eternal Transit Lounge of the Soul
- A Quick One From Moscow
- Hugged to death
- Fully Booked - Me In Manila - More Information - Free!
- From the Eternal Transit Lounge Of My Soul etc
- Not a proper blog
- Zoom. Mysteries solved.
- From a very nice hotel room in Hollywood, with love and melancholy
- Breaking news. Also, nobody move, this is a raid.
- The Goldberg Robinson Continuum
- Strange Days
February 2010
- Still reeling, still smiling...
- "Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely irrelephant..."
- Small Bee Blog
- Goofball
- What Today Is...
- With Great Power comes, well, something...
- Now We Are Nine
- A Quick One
- Playing a small imaginary me
January 2010
- Still Alive
- Phone card query...
- Time. It's waiting in the wings...
- From the Department of Only In Fiction
- And in the End...
- Olga's arrival
- Zoe update
- Where Are They Now?
- Zoe, part two
- A SMALL CAT STORY, and tabs to close
- Zoe
- Bela Fleck's Danse Macabre now out...
- Roundup of hasty strangeness...
- Telling the World: An Official Announcement
- Something really cool. Read this one.
- Eagle stones
- Where Eagles Daren't
- Home Again, with Additional Dog pictures.
- Argh
- What I said at 3 minutes after midnight on the first...
- Statuesque
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December 2009
- Wishes
- How I got to Boston
- From the Exact Middle of Nowhere
- Why all the lettering is getting smaller...
- Nakedly Commercial Post Sweetened By A Dog Photo
- Xmas Roundup With Some Good Links and a photo of an author in it
- Late night mystery post...
- What I plan to do this week
- In Which I Test Posterous
- Chilly and Statuesque
- Amazing Audio Things, and Pictures. No Blood Anywhere.
November 2009
- A bit sad. But it ends with Toast.
- Does Anyone Else have Something Further To Add?
- "Blood! Blood in unimaginable quantities!"
- LOCAL MAN IN HATE MAIL OUTRAGE SHOCK FIASCO
- Revealed! The Rulers of the Darkness of This World
- A VERY SEKRIT PASSPHRASE
- Radio! Books! Violin Lessons! Also, a haircut I do not mention anywhere in this blog!
- The Murder Re-Enacted
- half a lifetime?
- For those who read this blog for the articles
- Final Reminder for Bookshops
- Note to self: Nights are for sleeping, Days are for Being Awake.
- The Author Comes Home, and displays many photographs of his travels
October 2009
- I go, I go; look how I go,
- I have a chart. (A dragon chart!)
- playing with forms: Journal as a list of disclaimers
- playing with forms: Journal as "Weekly World News" tabloid
- playing with forms: Journal as back-page letters column
- playing with forms: Journal as industry blotter
- playing with forms: Journal as CSI: NY
- Jump into this here blanket what we are holding / And you will be all right
- Day Four: Went to ring bell, but cat had stolen batteries.
- further postcards from Mr. G
- Being a Demonstration Along Strictly Macabre Lines
- Additional tickets available!
- Waving From Beijing
- It Snowed This Morning
- One Perfect Autumn Day With Editorial Pie
- The Monster That Devoured Cleveland
- It's been One Year...
September 2009
- On banning books and escaping from the attic...
- Bet you thought I was... oh hang on, I used that one already
- I think I just made a film...
- Lights! Camera! Action!
- Back. Not dead. Hurrah.
August 2009
- Nothing Guaranteed - Or Your Money Back!
- Too tired
- A quick one
- Your Instructions, should you choose to accept them...
- "We're individuals in the community..."
- Underneath the Bats and the Stars
- Thank you kindly, Charlie Brown.
- ....pation!
- Worldcon Signing info
- I see you quiver with Antici
- Two Blue Ribbons.
- friday night and all's quiet
July 2009
- BELLJAR Postscript
- Who Bells The Bees? With photos...
- Doing a gloomy bear and other noises
- Green and Pleasant World
- Worldcon schedule
- Eleven Days or Thereabouts
- quick one
- Day 2 of ALA, and reading things aloud.
- How to play with your food
- Are you Comix Experienced?
- Death Wish
June 2009
- Locus Award...
- A Hollyday
- What bears do.
- Edinburgh
- Mourning Suit and Green Goddess
- The Father's Day & Invisible Plane Post
- the lightning and the lightning bug
- More on Stamps and Bookburning
- Stamps, Bookburning and Depth of Field
- One Ordinary Sunday, With Bees
- Edinburgh in August
- The Graveyard Book Halloween Party Indie Signing Plan and other stories
- Taking stock...
- The unblogged life...
May 2009
- Finally not a bridesmaid actually
- Book Expo Day the first. And the last.
- Scrapbook, and cats.
- Rhubarb rhubarb
- Golden breakfast things...
- drive-by blogging
- The #StemCellResearch Post and Her Majesty's Armoured Novelists
- One Blustery Day With Stamps
- The Littlest Beekeeper
- ants and screencracks
- Entitlement issues...
- 347 years older...
- Quick ones...
- City of amazing croissants and vanishing laundry
- Quick signing reminders, Paris and New York.
April 2009
- If this is Wednesday I must be in New York
- London, Paris, New York. Also Lexington High School.
- How to Order WHO KILLED AMANDA PALMER and why outer space tastes of raspberries
- J.G. Ballard and the way the future was
- All the Colours of Hell
- News! I mean real news, honest.
- Sir Clement Freud
- To the Bat Hive, Bee Wonder! and other stories
- It Was A Dark And Silly Night and stuff
- Amazonfail Sunday
- All Questions, All the Time
- The Unsorted Mailbag
- In the wee small hours of the morning
- Jason Webley
- Apparently if you just write BEAVER! people's minds head straight for the gutter
- Where the Books Are
March 2009
- Past, Present and Stick
- PEN and such miscellanea
- Hurrah for REALLY Embarrassing Photos
- The #100K Contest
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Hugo Thoughts
- The Religion of Dolphins...
- Monday, Colbert, and tabs galore
- Before and After Science
- Colbert and me...
- Long weekend
- intermission
- another day
- A Day.
- The Dark Truth of Bees
- The perfect job
- Head Wounds for Men
- Waiting for Stephin
February 2009
- Mostly Amused
- This is a Prayer For A Blueberry Girl...
- The end of the Audiobook argument
- The Snowphotos of Kilamanjaro
- From Before He Was A Wizard...
- Dragged screaming from the vaults...
- Death, Tentacles and Pip.
- A quick last few days roundup
- um, er... where am I again?
- Happy Jack Benny's Birthday
- 3D or Not 3D?
- zoom. zzzzoom.
- Quick argument summary
- by way of preamble...
- Recharging....
- Now We Are... Eight?
- From the man on the sofa
- The story so far....
- For a given value of normal anyway
- What Henry Did
- A hasty one
- As good as it gets
- Making a dent on the tabs but not a big one
- Hullo World, It's Me, Neil.
- Burn him! Burn Him!
January 2009
- Not so much a blog post
- Screener Photo (still a bit like birdwatching but with people)
- Here's the Button Trailer.
- running for plane
- what I look like the day after I win the Newbery
- (Insert amazed and delighted swearing here)
- Is Coraline right for (insert age here)?
- A bit like bird-watching but with people
- Junkettyjunk
- The Perils of Advertising
- In Just Seven Days I Can Make You A Man With A Dog.
- Buttons
- Batman & bits
- Putting off work for the last five minutes
- Raising a Glass to Mr Poe
- Everything you wanted to know about pills and this one dog
- Something just went beep and I have no idea what it was
- Happy and wise, in our giant hologram. Also, I am a coffee.
- journeys end
- test post
- Snowbirds
- In which I decide to spend the rest of my life in bed
- downstairs
- A Quick One
- The awful truth
- Mysteries and evil buttons
- Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross
- For those of you who missed it...
- Rumour control?
- Don Westlake
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December 2008
- Another Year
- At the turning of the year...
- The in-between-days
- Small car post
- Pondering Gaiman's Law of Superhero Films
- Black trees. Black Sweater. Amazing kids.
- My Box
- it was just meant to be some snow photos but i kept adding to it...
- Trees
- Koumpounophobics Unbuttoned
- N is for....
- A twittery sort of a Sunday...
- three photos
- Three things you could buy
- Barely a post at all...
- "I am prepared to offer you a deal if the book does sell..."
- no coherent theme of any kind
- Bloody NorthWest. Bloody Delta.
- the word 'person' included fictional or imaginary characters ...
- Monkey Shines
- Short, tired, trout-filled post...
- Two tee shirts, a party invitation and talking fish
- Why defend freedom of icky speech?
November 2008
- A small fit of madness, or a good idea. Not sure.
- Finally, a useful post
- ...is Nothing sacred?
- written to the sound of gunshots
- on not doing an Alan
- Beyond tea
- You could also try BUTTONEYES
- tea for two (or three, I suppose)
- Meanwhile the nude ladies continue to dance about
- prevarication and other great words
- Mister Fuchs and his flower
- On Seeing Amanda Palmer
- catching up, a little at a time
- looks around blearily...
- Pickles and Pears
- from Logan airport
- from Las Vegas
- Remembering Coals to Newcastle
- mostly written yesterday actually
- Creepy Doll
- The final days
October 2008
- a small Halloween* prezzie
- sleepless in edinburgh and manchester
- Where I will be this week....
- A hasty reminder...
- London on Sunday...
- Saturday? Already?
- Practically a twitter really
- shameless
- A fine wensleydale?
- Borders postscript
- Bookselling is science fiction
- Guacamole-headed thoughts...
- Vincent
- Circus Fish
- ethel the aardvark goes quantity surveying...
- linkworld
- Music! Music! Music!
- from darkest cornwall
- Apology: Italy
- unslept and somewhat slightly dazed
- So it ends...
- "....just to give you context."
- In Boulder, Colorado
- Live at Santa Monica
- Chapter Six in San Francisco yesterday...
- shipbuilding
- talking crow
- if this is saturday I must be in the bay area
- In Seattle
- The Tivoli and the Hounds of God
- Why Stephin Merritt wants to destroy the world...
- A Very Useful Post
- I survived the first chapter -- and everyone was really nice!
September 2008
- Posting the Widget
- Publication Day
- the final accounting
- A celebration of reading...
- A plausible denial....
- typing clunky
- Small signing note
- Why is the man on the right holding a microphone?
- I just found this...
- small helpful reminder
- waking up
- The Graveyard Book Tour
- The Tour Begins To Loom...
- quick one
- Still back. Still nocturnal.
- In which the author goes for a walk and then tries to answer some of the things in the mailbag
- home and, once more, hatless
- the curtains close on a kiss god knows, we can tell the end is near
- a guest post by Holly
- the penultimate webgoblin guest-post (for now)
- riding out the aftershocks
- we could be happy underground
- An anteater needs a knife (and I've got mine)
- And when the poll was cast, the winner was Mister James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump
- Please Help Find A Missing Person in New York City
- Mr. G sends us a present while he's away.
- Superman may never see his home, but we can save the home in which he was created.
- being an experiement along strictly scientific lines
August 2008
- This year's Book Festival is going to be LEGEN-(wait for it, and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant because the second half of this word is)-DARY
- I believe Mr. G calls this "closing some tabs".
- Please stop consoling Pappa G on the loss of his house...
- lately when my fingers move, Mr. G's words come out
- We do what we must because we can.
- Maddy and Holly Gaiman are babes!
- Concentrate on liberating pizza from evil pizzerias.
- Wee Hayley Campbell Needs A Beard Or Two
- I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!
- Apparently the RoboPanda comes with its own toy panda. I just fell down the meta-wormhole.
- How well do we use our freedom to choose the illusions we create?
- Clark Kent reached the highest height with the help of Perry White
- Amanda Palmer Needs A House In London
- a sophisticated desire for chaos
- I want my stretchy time
- You just know that "doing research...on foot in rural China" means "trying to find a panda that fits in my suitcase"
- bed bed bed
- "You will be visited," resumed the Ghost, "by Four Posts."
- Coraline -- backstage at the movies
- Hugo results
- tabclosing
- In which the author is grumbly
- Eyeless in the Attic
- Elfless in Gaza
- please stop my assistant becoming a mad cat lady
- Winter's Day
- Leaving the cloud club
- Killing Amanda for fun and profit
- on the concept of fiction
July 2008
- The roof of all evil
- Um. Tabalicious. Tabapocalypse. Taberrific.
- After Clarion
- Quick Newsy thing
- One of the Clarion posts I wasn't going to do, but...
- Last post for a bit
- public service announcements
- Black on Black
- For a Good Cause
- how to tell your friend you really, really hate his book and other ethical problems of today
- misc. stuff
- The results of Free
- Return I will to Old Brazil.
- It's like any other day. Gotta act like nothing happened.
- Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army...
- Then, tomorrow was another day...
- With still a million things to say...
- The morning found me miles away...
- Now, when twilight dims the sky above...
June 2008
- Brazeeeeeel....
- post interrupted
- Holly's Birthday Post
- The New Paranoia
- Not cute
- Cuteness overload
- looking at you sideways
- Explaining
- weakly entertaining
- The Journey to Headcorn
- actually by Neil this time
- Maddy might have blogged this but who knows...
- I am not a number...
- still lagging
- memo from jet lag town
- Father's Day
- Sorry
- tabcloser
- The End of the Auction
- Feed the Pidgen
- Soon enough a cat post, I promise...
- a momentary break from galleys
- Much Harry Clarke stuff, and more...
- Danse Macabre for banjos and clarinet...
- lunch break post
- catching up
- Big catch up post
May 2008
- hurrying out
- Perilous roads
- So you want to be an editor...?
- I survived!
- A quick one...
- "Hunting for rabbits again, Vicar?"
- Without fireworks
- They went to the stars
- Rory Root
- What's Your Story?
- Literally last minute doodle reminder
- not really about anything...
- Drunken air part two
- Drunken air
- Brief Trademark Ponders
- what you can't help doing
- Beware the wrath of an Angry Penguin
- Warning; contains language
- You put your (right-hand rear) leg in...
- still off the clock
- internal clockery
- Leaving Downunder
- get your YAs out
- two days, one bubble bath
- Reminder -- Australian events still to come
- the dogs and the bees
- buy now! etc
- Pretty Pictures
- What I did in Tasmania, with photos
April 2008
- Maybe later.
- Woot
- the weebleongdead switch
- Am in Sydney. Where ought I to be?
- Entertainers All...
- Pajamablog
- the copyright one after the last one...
- a few final copyright thoughts before we leave the subject entirely
- Remembering Douglas #1
- Advice
- Fair Use and other things
- Very very sleepy post
- Last orders
- The Eyes Have It
- Q: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? A: No.
- Just in case I look like a Panda in New York
- Tulsa June 28 and suchlike
- sunday morning
- The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
- Religiously interrupting your being since February 2001
- more on introductions and contradictions
- Four videos
- Warning: low-flying introductions...
- Why Introductions?
- my life in green and purple
- plan four....?
- Without tea surging through my system, how will I know what to call this post?
- Snowdrops
March 2008
- Airport Blogging
- a quick one
- oh good
- Chris Riddell
- just by the way
- Life on Martian
- Scary eyes
- The One From the Eastercon with the Dave McKean Subterranean Cover In It
- Holly and corridors
- At Eastercon
- feed me now
- Oh to Be In England etc etc
- A miscellania of things to click on
- Arthur C Clarke (and the closing of many tabs)
- picture time
- Coolth
- Maddy Is Back
- From The Coraline Set
- Rain and suchlike
- running out the door
- Closing Many Tabs
- The Station
- DANCE! Dance! DANCE! (and wave your Barbie Whistle Torch around)
- What Kurt Said
- I am sick of winter and would like some sunshine now please
- 29 Weeks, 2 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes, 16 seconds
- The one with the finished Dave McKean Graveyard Book cover
- Very small footnote to Free
- the one where I tell you which Dave McKean sketch we went for in the end
- the one with the Dave McKean Graveyard Book cover sketches in
- Born Free
- More on free and suchlike
- ghost days
- The Remnants of Kitty
- little bit of politics
February 2008
- The nature of free
- Kids! Free! Book!
- The Secret Master Of Science Fiction Responds....
- Fans Part Two
- Something I'm proud of
- mailbagggery and links
- At the end of a book...
- Coraline Trailer
- small news things
- Not only (highbrow) But Also (brilliant)
- The votes are in...
- string them up by their beautiful hair
- Alan Moore knows the Score (as of half-time, anyway),
- permanently defiled
- valentine...?
- Nearly there
- the view from Chapter 8
- pens, bubble wrap and bookends
- Steve Gerber
- M is for Mirrors you'll stare in forever/ N is for Night and for Nothing and Never
- “I didn’t grow up buying every book I read," says 47 year old author...
- The Birthday Thing
- Motivational Thoughts For An Author #1
- another birthday post...
- If you were wondering...
- what day is it?
- Spiderwick Green
- Happy Year of the Rat
- The Oxford, or serial, comma
- 102 pages. So far.
- Burbles
January 2008
- The days that pay for the bad ones...
- For Patry Francis...
- bad blogger. no liver stories.
- electric blue
- For the curious
- Brass Monkeys and me
- i bet you thought i was dead
- Coraline Preview
- Bad News
- The New York Times
- fog warning
- A good morning's mail...
- Teller and the Scottish Play
- mostly mailbag
- From the bat-sdrmg hWphor of Mnorkan rods
- Solid ink
- As I was saying
2007 336
December 2007
- anything done for the first time releases demons...
- The Guest Blogger Reviews Sweeney...
- "I'm the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and you can't catch me..."
- Probably the last Dog Photos of the Year
- Cabal and the Snow
- Snowmen Later
- Blinking at the daylight
- Changing planes.
- Like the Dark Knight trailer, but with buttons...
- winter butterflies
- A useful post (honest)
- A story for which the world is not yet ready
- Mailbaggery
- "Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations."
- Still alive (not the song)
- Slow Fade
- [message redacted]
- The 3D Coraline Trailer
- "...making a gift for you"
- Kids! Save! Money!
- strikes and scripts and stuff
- morpheus and nightmares and such
- Thinking Out Loud Mostly
November 2007
- Heading bookward
- Jerusalem
- so you know
- Gallivant's travels
- leaving manila
- Thanks from the future...
- Me in Manila
- Flying Away Now
- The view from Bissette
- still brainless after all these years
- catching up
- Zoom
- birthdays
- Just above the Bible, but just below Black Beauty
- Maddy would like to say a little thing about the premiere
- reminder
- late night thoughts
- Pretty much a test post
- Roger and Me
- The Fifth of November
- Spot the typo?
- Failing to sleep in
- words, words
- The past tense of looming
- JuhjuhjuhGeorgette...
- Bone thoughts
October 2007
- Happy Hallowe'en
- The Night Before Hallowe'en...
- the simplicity of black...
- my World Book Day book
- The beginning of Chapter 3 of Odd and the Frost Giants
- to autumn
- Scary Christmas
- finished Odd
- And now a word for those we sponsor....
- Night Thoughts
- on being venerable
- the flowers of romance
- Superdog
- More of a not-a-blog entry than anything
- a legend in our own lunchtimes
- Embed Time Stories
- The view from the end of chapter 8
- Why write?
- Teabreak over, back on my head
- Every Day I Write the Book
- Re: Your Brains
- Hanging on the telephone
- Stuff
- Leftovers mostly
- Regaining solidity
- the verb and the infixed expletive
- be it never so humble...
- Small morning thought
- Walking the Green Carpet
- puts you there where things are hollow
- Thanks, Len
- What I did today
September 2007
- Getting out of the Bath
- me and you and you and me
- A webcomic about me and my hair... or about my hair and me?
- Bugs and features
- to putter about the house?
- Criterion reminder
- A wonderful world
- no longer in Japan
- My first slideshow
- In search of In Search of Steve Ditko
- mystery tabs...
- lunchblog
- A nice day
- In Japan
- Bath's and Bristol's
- Jim Rigney
- Why It's Sometimes Better To Write It First
- I just don't see it...
- A Quick One
- Lund, London and a Little Japan
- Lund
- "What if it WAS the chicken?"
- Even odderments
- oddments
- Curtains
- A Poet to a T
- Where am I?
- Quick Sweden Info
- The Enormous Polaroid
- Mantua...
- Visit Stormhold
- I See You Quiver With Antici....
- Of course, he'll also win one for Blink next year
- An at-a-glance guide to spotting things like walls and me and giraffes
August 2007
- the greater tromps
- No Bookworm, I'm afraid
- Long Post, I'm afraid....
- In Which Maddy Turns Thirteen, Half a World Away
- more pictures of me not eating bamboo
- I am the one not eating bamboo
- things to put in hotpot
- Red Carpet Treatment
- mist in the morning
- Zoom. Zoom.
- Chengdu and elsewhere
- Fortean Mysteries
- Untitled Post. Well, practically.
- some of the things I'll miss
- Why call them back from paradise?
- Out Of Range
- thunder
- Why I Like Russia
- Dog Days
- Neverwear?
- As Dr Johnson said...
- What to do with your friends on Friday. Also Chocolate Eggs.
- may be comin' to your town...
- getting better all the time
- why I am no longer a journalist
- Speak of the devil...
- goggling
- typing, not writing...
- Because many of you asked
- the spice of life
July 2007
- A moment of coolth
- Notes from a vegetable
- Prelude To A Kiss
- Maddy TV Episode Two
- Blur
- Maddy Gaiman TV!
- Psst.. it's Maddy!!
- I feel like a cork
- Quick charitable wave
- Here and Now
- One of those long posts that goes all over the place...
- luck, the good kind
- More info to come. But this is a start...
- Stardust at Comic-Con. Beowulf Preview ditto.
- Party Party
- A million words. More or less. Argh.
- Interviews. Also sushi and a TV spot.
- junketty junk
- A band of bandits
- the circus drums in the distance...
- Badger. Mushroom. Snake. Well, only badger really.
- Jam stains
- Sorry
- orchids and hemlock
- enchanted flowers
- twelve thousand words to go
- Blueberry Girls
- the perils of travel, narrowly escaped
- My Cheesy Goodbye!
- Maddy is so marvelous, masterly, mind-blowing, miraculous, and magnificent. Also modest.
- Grr... the title is my least favorite part!!
June 2007
- guest post...
- I still haven't improved on this whole title thing.
- Photos!!! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- Holly the Happening!
- Addy-May's fun tales.
- Maddy is so cool!
- Ice cream is a food group.
- I'm not very good at this whole title thing.
- Meet your guest blogger
- A hundred thousand tumpty tumpties
- Locus Winners
- Why I am not much of a prophet really
- News and musing
- Come to Dance the Macabray
- Still testing
- Testing Safari for Windows...
- Waving...
- Two photographs...
- Another quick one...
- scents and sensibility
- oddness
- Catching up
- Ulp
- jet-lag, and a disreputable beardlet
- Hay Hay Hay
- A new pair of ears
May 2007
- a harum scarum life
- a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover
- This is not a blog post
- Graduation Days
- Up betimes...
- Two Authors in Need of a Shave
- fireflies
- A fashion (and hair) retrospective
- The Nature of the infection
- gets you coming and going
- The mathematics of dogs and sofas
- Some Photographs From the Wedding of the Greatest Living Englishman and Melinda Perry Gebbie
- Interrogatory
- My Friday
- Sorry. And a short fillum.
- Tabs, writing and why writers should not carry portfolios
- Horse races and horse trading
- Advertising: threat or menace?
- like cats and dogs
- Responsibility, I expect
- Trousers
- For anyone who ever wondered what I look like not in black...
- Possibly not entirely unexpected news
- Infernal Devices
April 2007
- Some animal thoughts...
- bees and stuff
- A Quick One
- Readings and bees and books
- gubbins
- no cheese-based rants here
- Lazy Sunday
- posting made hard
- After These Messages...
- Other People
- Page Numbering Question
- Bet you thought I was dead
- Though He Can Never Look At Cheese The Same Way Again
- And Certainly Not In Anyone's Attic
- Like Muenster, Or Swiss, Or Possibly Even Gouda
- Help, I've Been Kidnapped By Elves
- "I'm just going outside, and I may be some time"
- the enormous bed
- Rabbits and Tygers and Butterflies oh my
- Bless...
March 2007
- An apology for May 2008
- back to sleep, back to reality
- Getting husky
- How to Talk to Authors Without Voices
- be vewwy vewwy quiet...
- trailer talk
- Win a Very Battered Keyboard With a Key Missing And Everything!
- Fizzle
- Eh bien...
- Trailer
- Leipzig (more or less rhymes with My Pig, incidentally)
- News
- "...and I am a doggerel bard..."
- A Reminder and a lack of poems
- A Quick One
- From Krakow, city of trout and dragon
- a miscellany
- Mystery Russian Leaks
- National Characteristics
- Beware the March of Ideas
- chicken with its head cut off...
- "I see no point in living if I can't be beautiful..."
- the how of blogging
- Cat scans
- From Neil the nine-fingered...
- small poetry ponder
- "I am the emperor, and I want dumplings"
- Absolute Mondays
- No longer the blog without giraffes
- In which your correspondent admits to not knowing very much at all
- Gene wolves
- but the snow's all road and the road's all snow...
- The view from here
- More Mysteries of the Oracle
- the last last word
February 2007
- oddments
- Snow shovelling...
- Smelling For Good
- A Special Obligation...
- Several dates. Also some places.
- Will no-one help the widow's raccoon?
- An Absence of Scrota -- your guide to quality literature...
- Sacheverell. Saccheveral. Sachevarall. Sod it.
- Small ponder on mysteries...
- Year of the Pig
- Cale. Mckean. Cat. Bag.
- Worth waiting for...
- Valentine
- Psst. Dreamhaven. Pass it on...
- Extremely Short Legal Entry
- Something good...
- Now We Are Six
- Not quite blog birthday...
- From the distant past
- "...hair that creeps off in the night and devours small animals..."
- random ponders
- Ice
- Stardusties
- clouds of witness and word
- "...when you live in a godless universe of pain. If the universe was ordered, Neil Armstrong should be the first Neil on Google."
- "...and in the time it took to say that Neil Gaiman wrote another two movies..."
- A Quick One
January 2007
- low brow art starts here
- Not quite authorised, not quite not
- What authors don't do, and other digressions
- 1,014,261 not counting these
- Time to go...
- Cool Stuff and Things
- Exciting Label News! (Harpsichords not mentioned.)
- Mostly pictures
- The war on fame...
- fact checking 101
- It's Not Just January 31st any longer...
- a post of bits
- just because...
- snow and work
- Exit Harry Horse
- Walker fun
- Last Coraline picture for a while, I expect
- Save money! Ask me how!
- The Coraline Movie's Mission Statement is...
- First Coraline Photos
- The best film of 2006 was...
- famousnessness
- pretty vacant
- An even quicker one
- quick one
- "Never use goats when there's an R in the month!"
- What I have learned so far in 2007
- New Year's Day