Neil Gaiman

I just sent this FAQ to Neil Gaiman,


I'm terribly lazy and would rather be reading good books than webpages (even if yours are delightful, and read by me regularly anyway.) But I just finished a book series I loved, and in my deep funk because I have no more of those favorites to read, having gobbled them up greedily, and bereftly looking for another author like her (Jaqueline Carey), I found you had positively reviewed Storm Constantine (who amazon listed as "similar to Carey"). Since I love your work, and respect your opinion, I bought several of Constantine's books (they haven't arrived yet but I have great hopes). So on to the lazy question:

Do you have a list of authors you would "not trade for"[I think it was 20] Anne Rices"? (that's a poorly remembered paraphrase of your review of her). People you have on that bookshelf you frequently re-read, that isn't necessarily the shelf you parade for impressing guests? Maybe ten or so, and then I can go from there? Dark, twisted, but ultimately heartwarming & funny stuff? Stuff by which Queen Victoria would *not* be amused? Goth-y stuff that makes you think? Stuff like yours, and Constantine's, and heck, maybe even Pratchett's? Since I've already gobbled up all of your books (I am working through the comics) I have to find other ways to squander the time with which I *ought* to be writing my doctoral dissertation. (Someday it will happen, maybe fairies will leave it on my computer if I ask nicely enough).

I notice that you frequently recommend books, and truly appreciate that. But a handy dandy printable list would be something wonderful because the recommendations in teeny weeny "eye-strain-o-vision"(TM) are scattered through months of blogs....

Thank you even if you can't do this since you have a job to do.....
Kim Wells
(oh, and I have a website on books, and though I'm afraid you'll hate it and talk about what a dolt I am in your next blog, it will have a new issue out soon.)
www.womenwriters.net


I'll see if he answers. At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to suck up so he'll answer my post if he reads this blog entry and sees I'm trying to promote him, even though not on my gender-specific site but through this handy-dandy back door.......I really do like his blog, and it inspires me to get in here and write my own every once in a while. Mostly because I know, as a writing teacher, that to write you have to write every darn day. And I'm not doing that, and instead watching re-runs of A Wedding Story again and again and hoping beyond hope that those dissertation fairies will get busy! What do you have to leave out for dissertation fairies? I know you leave a bowl of milk out for some fairies, and liquor's good for others. What do dissertation fairies eat? Anyone know from personal experience?