Some of them were over Zoom and were recorded. It's variations on a theme: In 2016 I went to see Harlan and Susan. (Yes, I've seen the newsfeed headlines saying I've moved to the UK, and even that we're divorcing. I wasn't able to get back to them, as only New Zealanders are allowed in. Lots of happy tears. And I needed to be somewhere I could continue to isolate easily, which definitely isn't our house in Woodstock, currently at capacity with five families who have fled Manhattan and Brooklyn and Boston. (Cat Mihos took the photo above, and also told me that Susan was gone. No, I haven't moved the UK, and yes, Amanda and I are still very much together, even with half a world between us.). When I landed the whole of the UK was under lockdown rules. It would be late August before I saw a sky filled with stars. Here's an interview with me (and an extract from "The Sound of Her Wings") at the EW site: So. By using this site, you agree to the use of cookies within our USA & CANADA ONLY. And now I was, most definitely, in one place. I hope you all enjoy it... For people who need it in a more tangible form, it will also be for sale as CDs. View announcement bar 0 View announcement bar 1 View announcement bar 2 View announcement bar 3. Why go to Skye? TRACK YOUR ORDER!. USE CODE: SALE70. He was one of the first UK actors to "break the colour bar", one of the first black actors in Doctor Who, a mainstay of cinema and television, always acting with grace and moral authority. A New Year's Thoughts, and the old ones gathered. Just not count it as one of the years of my life. She and I became friends incredibly fast. He was at his lowest ebb after the stroke. The last blog I wrote, about how I had been here for almost three weeks, turned into news - and not in a good way. So, to answer the questions I'm being asked most often right now: What were you thinking? He had come to the UK from Bermuda during the Second World War, as a sailor, and had stayed, and become an actor. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. PS: Amanda and I wrote a letter together, for the curious and for the bits of the world that is wondering what's going on, and whether they should worry about it. This is what it looked like on my screen, just before we went live... May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. It was an actual job only because it was something she would have done anyway, and that way I hoped they were letting me pay for the lunches. There are two new books out -- one came out last week, one comes out this week. a conversation with Nuclear Physicist and author Carlo Rovelli, 2012 the last wish I posted, terrified but trying to be brave, from backstage at a concert, ast year, sick and alone on a New Year's Eve in Melbourne, I wrote, Two New Books and a tawny owl in a pear tree, WhatsApp Audio 2020 - 10 - 18 At 11.17.49 PM, https://www.harlanellisonbooks.com/susan-ellison-1960-2020/, https://www.brilliancepublishing.com/title/50614/alt, https://ew.com/books/neil-gaiman-sandman-audible-adaptation-netflix-show/, list of all the nominees and of the awards given out at the Nebulas, https://www.facebook.com/SFWA.org/videos/996082517476423/, Where I am, what I'm doing, how I'm doing and how I got here. Once the world opens up and travel gets easier Amanda and Ash and I are looking forward to being together again in Woodstock. Kind of a year, anyway. PIRATE STEW was published first, illustrated by the genius Chris Riddell. The audio adaptations are much closer to the original graphic novels, each episode being a comic in the original. 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Make art -- or whatever you make -- if you can make it. It was a friend's birthday the other day, and I asked what they wanted, and was told, a voice message about "Something that makes you feel better when you're down". We're really smart, and capable of getting ourselves out of trouble. 30 seconds later...perhaps not. Talking about writing, comics, books, films, bees, … This house came with an enormous walled meadow, which my neighbours use to keep their sheep in, and an ancient orchard. The first is a conversation with Nuclear Physicist and author Carlo Rovelli, moderated by Erica Wagner, about art and science, literature and life and death: Each of the conversations is about an hour long, and, as I say, I learned so much from both of them. Well, that was a year. The adaptation was written and directed by audio genius Dirk Maggs, and only it's taken 28 years to happen -- since Dirk first pitched Sandman to BBC Radio 4 in 1992. 30-70% OFF SITEWIDE! Mostly they wanted to be sure I was all right, and had been isolating, and that I would keep isolating here until the lockdown ends, and to make sure I knew the rules. Why come back to the UK? Who are you?" View announcement bar 0 View announcement bar 1 View announcement bar 2 View announcement bar 3. In 2017, BBC Radio 4 (in the shape of Dirk Maggs and Heather Larmour) did a glorious audio adaptation of. Pretty soon it will have reached Hawaii, and it'll be 2021 everywhere, and 2020 will be done. But then you look up... (All these photos were taken on a Pixel 5 phone in Astrophotography mode. Why not go somewhere else? 40% OFF GRAPHIC TEES! I'd hear about them, by text or by phone, and then they'd be in the past. I could almost do that with 2020. Like all the locals who have reached out to me, they've been astonishingly kind. The nights are getting longer, here on Skye, and the sun sets noticeably earlier, week to week. I came straight here, and I've been in isolation here ever since. And that each of us is going to get through it by being part of something bigger than we are. To see our loved ones, and hold them once again. Be kind to each other, be kind to Amanda (who is getting a huge amount of undeserved internet flack for this, some of it really cruel). The hardest moments personally were walking further into the darkness than I'd ever walked before, and knowing that I was alone, and that I had no option but to get through it all, a day at a time, or an hour at a time, or a minute at a time. It knew what it was doing.). The production and the music are glorious. Download the app to shop and checkout faster. There are hundreds of characters in these eleven hours, brought to you by 68 actors (well, 67 actors and me): Earl had been a trailblazer as a performer on film and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. And I hope you won't freeze. We've been around for a few million years -- our particular species has been here for at least two hundred thousand years. And now I'm sitting and writing this outside. Everyone else on the block slept through it. Now I'd been forced to embrace chaos and unpredictability, while at the same time, learning to appreciate the slow day to day transition that happens when you stay in the same place as the seasons change. This is the photo of me and Susan taken immediately after that. Pause announcement. Eleven hours of drama. I'm humbled and grateful to be here. I didn't get to meet Susan until 1989, when I went to see Harlan in LA. At the end of April, on Skye, I had ordered a telescope, and then discovered that "astronomical twilight" -- when it's dark enough to see stars -- wasn't due until the end of July. I had conversations with people I treasure. It's too chilly really to write outside, but it's possible, and it won't be possible soon, and that means a lot. speech, Labels: So be kind. And, when you can, love. privacy policy. Both are beautiful books, and otherwise the same. This site uses cookies to provide an optimized shopping experience. Since I got here Skye has had its own tragic COVID outbreak – ten deaths in a local care home. Last year, sick and alone on a New Year's Eve in Melbourne, I wrote: I hope in the year to come you won't burn. (Lots of behind the scenes jiggery-pokery happens that only sort-of works. Play them both, one after the other, and perhaps they'll cheer you up too...). Good Omens, These are very straightforward adaptations. The best moments were moments of friendship, most of them from very far away, and a slow appreciation of land and sky and space and time. I wouldn't give back the deaths, either: each life was precious, and every friend or family member lost diminishes us all. I did something stupid. Read the blog post about it, and see a sample will. And when I'd recorded that, I went outside and recorded this: I met Harlan Ellison the day before his wife, Susan, met him, in 1985, in Glasgow. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget. Funerals I would have flown a long way to be at didn't happen and nobody went anywhere: the goodbyes and the mutual support,  the hugs and the tears and the trading stories about the deceased, none of that occurred. Ray Bradbury Award, You don't have the art, alas, but I hope that the performances and the music give you something that translates it to another place. (They said no.). I replied to that. It's a beautiful story. I gave him a photo of my new son Ash, and he just stared at it for half an hour. Small acts of generosity, of speech, of reaching out, can mean more to those receiving them than the people doing them can ever know. It reminded me of flying a week after 9/11: everything's changed. Our first actual conversation, while Harlan was answering a phone, began with her saying, "So. It's 2021 in some places already, creeping around the planet. The world is a lesser place without him in it. I got to chat to some local police officers yesterday, who said all things considered I should have stayed where I was safe in New Zealand, and I agreed that yes, all things considered, I should. This is the announcement from the Harlan Ellison Books website, with the story Harlan wrote for her. My daughter Maddy came to stay with me for November, and was amused by my reaction to the things that now fascinated me: stones, especially ones that people had moved hundred or thousands of years ago, skies and clouds, and, finally in the long, cold Skye Winter nights, I had the stars I had missed in the summer. Everything you need to know about The Kane Chronicles movies release date, along with the cast, synopsis, trailer and more. I drove directly to my home in the UK, which is on Skye. In February 2020 I'd been regretting that I knew where I would be and what I would be doing every day for the next three years. We love each other, and we love Ash, and we will sort ourselves out, in private, which is much the best place for things like this. Our stories may be unique to us, but none of us is unique in our misery or our pain. Now we were fortunate enough to have him and his compassion and his gentle humour, acting away in monkish robes in muddy cellars, chilly vaults, and deserted churches, all over London. I wasn't, not clearly. But her last email of all. Children or no children? amanda palmer, I'm writing this blog to try and get my head around it, because I don't believe it. And never forget that, sometimes, it's only when it gets really dark that we can see the stars. I also want to thank and apologise to the local police, who had better things to do than check up on me. And here, let's gather together all the New Year's Messages I've ever written on this site: And here, from 2012 the last wish I posted, terrified but trying to be brave, from backstage at a concert: It's a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. But each of the deaths made me realise how much I cared for someone, how interconnected our lives are. I was panicked, more than a little overwhelmed and stuck in New Zealand. Thank you, Cat.). USA & CANADA ONLY. It can get as dark in the winter as it was light all night in the summer. It took a lot of work, but I'm happy to say that, after 9 months of missing each other, Ash and I are reunited. It's not set up to handle things like this, and all the local resources are needed to look after the local community. I flew, masked and gloved, from empty Auckland airport to LAX, an empty international terminal with only one check in counter open -- the one for the BA flight from LAX to London. Don't come to the Highlands and Islands unless you have to. I'm not processing that properly. Click on this, and you will hear James McAvoy as Morpheus... Labels: ), (These are audio files. one. I hope you and your family will be safe, and walk freely in the world and that the place you live, if you have one, will  be there when you get back. When my Cousin Helen and her two sisters reached a displaced persons camp at the end of WW2, having survived the Holocaust by luck and bravery and the skin of their teeth, they had no documents, and the people who gave them their papers suggested to them that they put down their ages as five years younger than they were, because the Nazis had stolen five years from them, and this was their only chance to take it back. The hardest moments, in retrospect, were the deaths, of friends or of family, because they simply happened. These are, well, full cast audiobooks of the first three SANDMAN graphic novels: Dirk Maggs gave me the role of the narrator, and I gave him the original scripts, so often what I'm saying as narrator is what I asked the artists to draw, over thirty years ago. We were the same age. I don't know anything else about you. Smile too much. Because like so many other people, my homelife and work had been turned upside-down by the COVID-19 lockdowns. Neil Gaiman's Journal: started February 2001 when nobody knew what the word Blog meant. The message is ANYTHING YOU NEED I WILL HELP. " I hope that, for all of us, in the year ahead, kindness will prevail and that gentleness and humanity and forgiveness will be there for us if and when we need them.And may your New Year be happy, and may you be happy in it.I hope you make something in the year to come you've always dreamed of making, and didn't know if you could or not. I'm not sure about the narrator, but everything else is sparkling and exciting. Empty airports, mostly empty planes. We're part of humanity. The journey was, as I said,  surreal. We last spoke a month ago. ️FREE SHIPPING OVER $75. USE CODE: SALE70. About seven years ago the orchard was flooded, and we lost all the redcurrants and gooseberries and rhubarb and such, but most of the trees survived, and there are apples and plums and pears still growing on them. We agreed that we needed to give each other some space, which had been in very short supply in lockdown in New Zealand. The first award they gave out was the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and it meant the world that it went to episode 3 of. Requiring student vaccinations when the virus is less lethal to them than the seasonal flu is simply totalitarian. It's rough for almost everyone right now – some people are crammed together and wish they weren't, some are alone and crave companionship, pretty much all of us are hurting in one way or another. Thank you to everyone who's been kind and nice and helpful, while Amanda and my problems got rather more public than either of us is comfortable with. We can tease out patterns from huge complicated pictures, and we can imagine patterns where there is only randomness and accident. They didn't count the war years as part of their life. It took a long time, but this is the closest we could come to giving the world the original graphic novels, bumps and all. So many talented actors and voices are involved. That's loosening up, and the New Zealand Immigration authorities are starting to permit families to reunite.). Today is the day that the first adaptation of Sandman is released. I landed in London about ten in the morning, got a masked car service to a friend's house. He died, yesterday, aged 102, nearly 103. And we're really thoughtless and able to get ourselves into trouble that we may not be able to get ourselves out of. THE SPRING BLOWOUT SALE! The cast is amazing. Married or unmarried? Cat runs my film and TV world, the Blank Corporation, but for the last four or five years she also had an extra job, which was to go and see Susan, and take her out for food if she'd go, because I wasn't there. I interviewed him. I went to the UK government website (, I've been living in the UK since 2017, and all of my upcoming work is here - so '. I was in New Zealand with them until two weeks ago, when New Zealand went from the Level 4 lockdown it had been on for the previous 5 weeks down to Level 3. Read the blog post about it, and see a sample will. Hold on. Home Jeans under $20 Collection: Jeans Under $20 Say goodbye to bidding online for used luxe jeans and hello to totally fire and unbelievably cheap denim with Fashion Nova denim deals. Hang on, by the skin of your teeth if you have to. We did the thing of being two English People In America together. And I'm sure you will. Photo by Amanda Palmer. Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockdown on my own. I just opened my email, and read her email from a week ago. And even once the sun had set, it didn't get dark. Sandman was always "For Mature Readers" and this is no different. DEALS STARTING AT $4 . [2] As capas da revista foram desenhadas pelo parceiro artístico e amigo de Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (com quem trabalhou em outras histórias em quadrinhos como Violent Cases, Orquídea Negra e Mr. Punch). But if all you can manage is to get out of bed in the morning, then do that and be proud of what you've managed, not frustrated by what you haven't. I'd swap out the walk into the dark, but then, there's nobody in 2020 who hasn't been hurt by something in it. We are working with medical experts and legal advisers on that important question and will make an announcement at a future date, as soon as that process is complete. and so I told her everything I could think of, and I kept answering her questions for the next 31 years. an Owl, Information, choosing a selection results in a full page refresh, press the space key then arrow keys to make a selection. Here's me reading the opening and talking about how the book came into existence... Labels: In 9 days, on the 15th of July, Audible will release the first of the SANDMAN audio adaptations. I hope the year ahead is kind to us, and that we will be kind to each other, even if the year isn't. I just wanted to go home. Do what you can. She was the most direct person I knew. For the upcoming Netflix TV series, we're starting from now, and doing it as if it was being written, for the first time, in 2020. Receive the kindnesses of others with grace. She was worried about me, and I told her I would make it through it all just fine and promised her that when the world was less crazy, and travel was a thing again, I'd come to Sherman Oaks and we'd finally have the dinner we had promised each other that we would have ever since Harlan died, and we'd talk about Harlan and life and we'd set the world to rights. I'm really sorry. View announcement bar 0 View announcement bar 1 View announcement bar 2 … It was also emotionally hard. (You can read all about how we got to New Zealand and why we were there at all at, http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/03/on-beach.html. Where are the civil libertarians? I'm sure I've done sillier things in my life, but this is the most foolish thing I've done in quite a while. She would Big Sister me whenever I would go over there, and was one of the few people I'd allow to boss me around for my own good, mostly because I had no other choice. DISCOUNT CODES CANNOT BE USED DURING THE MEMORIAL DAY SALE, Define a menu with women-women-nova-luxe or women-nova-luxe, Define a menu with women-women-masks or women-masks, ✈️FREE SHIPPING OVER $75. Harlan began an anecdote about the Marx Brothers but got confused and couldn't finish it. She made it through so much. I hadn't managed to be in the same place, or even the same country, for nine months since... well, probably when I was writing American Gods in 2000. My current crusade is to make sure creative people have wills. It was an 8 toy event. Eventually I give up and go over to Soundcloud files, and attempt to embed them. Both flights were surreal, especially the flight to London. married life. make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. Amanda and I had found ourselves in a rough place immediately before I left (my fault, I'm afraid, I'd hurt her feelings very badly, and... actually beyond that it's none of anyone else's business). Last night, starting at at 1:00 in the morning, my time, was the Nebula Awards ceremony, held by the SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. I'd never seen him like that. Don't do what I did. I've been here since April, and things are finally looking hopeful for getting back to my family (Amanda and Ash are still in New Zealand. Like the savvy shopper and style icon you are, you know that cheap jeans for women can turn heads, too. It's a beautiful day in mid-Autumn on Skye and I'm not sure where the year went. She is indomitably holding it together, and I'm so sad. There's no streetlights where I live, no lights for many miles. This may work, although I'm still blogging with Blogger, which these days is a lot like blogging with a charred stick and a hank of bearskin, for all the functionality it gives one, so it may not. And after I sent it I thought, well, there are a lot of us who need cheering up right now, so, with their permission, I'm putting it up here too. Feel free to send anyone who wants to know how we are and what's happening to read it. Here are the two conversations that I felt I learned the most from, and I put them up here because they may also teach you something or give you comfort. I'm very aware that on Skye, beautiful weather can be replaced by weeks of rain and gale-force winds, so I went down to the orchard and clambered up a ladder, and picked all the pears I could reach, disturbing a tawny owl, who flapped off somewhere it wouldn't bothered by people randomly climbing its trees. Remember, you aren't alone, no matter how much it feels like it some times. But I bet you can. So, yes. [3] Em seus trabalhos cinematográficos, encontramos MirrorMask, seu filme ao lado de Dave McKean e a Jimmy Hensons Company que estreou em maio de 2005 [4] e Neverwhere, minissérie … The Neil Gaiman Reader. I was seeing a different sunset every night. So it was a sad sort of flight, even without the world in lockdown, and a sad sort of drive. Would you leave New Zealand again, knowing what you know now? Which made me smile when I got it, and makes me smile now, because Susan was braver than lions. Paste Movies is your guide to the best in film, whether you're watching in a theater or at home on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO or on demand. I drove north, on empty motorways and then on empty roads, and got in about midnight, and I've been here ever since. Patton Oswalt came by to see how Harlan was doing. I made a mistake. pirate stew, And the other book (to published on Tuesday) is: The UK edition is the blue one, the US is the grey one. He had a spare car (bought many years ago as a birthday present for his daughter, but she had never learned to drive), with some groceries for me in a box in the back, waiting in the drive, with the key in the lock. I wouldn't want to give back the stars, or the sunsets, or the stones, in order not to count 2020 as a real year. It should be out now on all the English-language versions of Audible. I needed to be somewhere I could talk to people in the UK while they and I were awake, not just before breakfast and after dinner. If there was a lesson that I took from 2020, it's that this whole thing -- civilisation, people, the world -- is even more fragile than I had dreamed. It's the first three graphic novels, PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES, THE DOLL'S HOUSE and DREAM COUNTRY, released, as  full-cast audio drama, on Audible. Gay or straight? I know you're a writer. I'm the narrator -- often reading descriptions of places or characters I wrote in the original scripts long ago for artists to draw, which Dirk has cunningly snuck into the script. Hug too much. The sun didn't set until ten or ten thirty. I want to apologize to everyone on the island for creating such a fuss. For years, blind and partially sighted people, or people who for whatever reason couldn't read comics but wanted to still get access to the stories, have asked me if there would ever be an audiobook of the Sandman books. There should be versions in other languages coming relatively soon. Go and read it. Ash, I hope we all get to walk freely in the world once more. ARMAGEDDON. But I'd hate to throw the magic out with the bathwater: there were good things, some of them amazing, in with the awful. Nebula Awards, Life in lockdown,
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