Neverwhere Awe

Neil Gaiman.

He’s awesome.

I think the proudest ever moment of my entire writing career was when one of my books – I think the Midnight Mayor, maybe? – was beaten into second place in an annual poll of cool fantasy and SF books, by The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.  It was possibly the single most exciting literary moment of my life, and I still feel giddy thinking about it today, although infuriatingly when I read the Graveyard Book, someone had pulled out the one page with the one paragraph which explains everything you ever needed to know, and while obviously I love the book, I’m still not entirely sure I get why what happened, happened.  Whoever you are, Anonymous Islington Library Borrower X, you have a lot to answer for…

And now, just to add to that sense of awesome, there’s this:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/11/author-meets-world.html

Excited?

I am…

(Also, on a completely different note, try and work out which member of the cast I nearly – but didn’t – accidentally brain with a 3000W strobe while suspended by a safety harness 20m above their head.  I had sweaty hands, it was my seventh consecutive 13 hour day, the last strobe in the theatre, I was out of hard power, the DMX chain was too long, no one could find a terminator and as this irritatingly weighty object slid further and further from my clammy grip, the innocent actor below had no idea how close death came… god bless steel wire rope and rigging gloves…)