hclark
April 30th, 2002, 12:23 PM
Interesting news from Scifi.com about Neil Gaiman. Thought I should share. On a related note, I can't wait to see how the Good Omens movie turns out!!!
Gaiman Signs New Book Deal
Neil Gaiman, author of the best-selling fantasy novel American Gods, has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins for his next two novels and a short story collection to be published by the company's Morrow/Avon division, Gaiman's spokesman announced. Gaiman is also known for writing the Sandman series of graphic novels.
The new deal includes audio rights for the upcoming books. Gaiman's agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writer's House, negotiated the contract with HarperCollins' vice president, associate publisher and executive editor of Morrow/Avon, Jennifer Hershey.
HarperAudio will release the audio edition of Gaiman's Coraline on June 18, prior to the print edition. On Oct. 11, HarperAudio will publish Two Plays for Voices, audio editions of two of Gaiman's radio plays, Murder Mysteries, starring Brian Dennehy, and Snow Glass Apples, starring Bebe Neuwirth and originally produced for SCIFI.COM's Seeing Ear Theatre.
Gaiman is also busy in Hollywood. Director Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) is in preproduction on the feature-film adaptation of Good Omens, based on the novel by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Gaiman has also just delivered his film adaptation of Nicholson Baker's fantasy novel The Fermata to director Robert Zemeckis. Gaiman will also write and direct the screen adaptation of his Sandman miniseries Death: The High Cost of Living for Warner Brothers. Warner also has plans to develop Gaiman's comic series Sandman and Books of Magic. Miramax, for whom Gaiman wrote the English translation script of the anime film Princess Mononoke, has acquired the rights to Gaiman's novel Stardust and to his short story "Chivalry." The Jim Henson Company currently has the rights to Gaiman's novel Neverwhere. Director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) is adapting Coraline for the screen.
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Gaiman Signs New Book Deal
Neil Gaiman, author of the best-selling fantasy novel American Gods, has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins for his next two novels and a short story collection to be published by the company's Morrow/Avon division, Gaiman's spokesman announced. Gaiman is also known for writing the Sandman series of graphic novels.
The new deal includes audio rights for the upcoming books. Gaiman's agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writer's House, negotiated the contract with HarperCollins' vice president, associate publisher and executive editor of Morrow/Avon, Jennifer Hershey.
HarperAudio will release the audio edition of Gaiman's Coraline on June 18, prior to the print edition. On Oct. 11, HarperAudio will publish Two Plays for Voices, audio editions of two of Gaiman's radio plays, Murder Mysteries, starring Brian Dennehy, and Snow Glass Apples, starring Bebe Neuwirth and originally produced for SCIFI.COM's Seeing Ear Theatre.
Gaiman is also busy in Hollywood. Director Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) is in preproduction on the feature-film adaptation of Good Omens, based on the novel by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Gaiman has also just delivered his film adaptation of Nicholson Baker's fantasy novel The Fermata to director Robert Zemeckis. Gaiman will also write and direct the screen adaptation of his Sandman miniseries Death: The High Cost of Living for Warner Brothers. Warner also has plans to develop Gaiman's comic series Sandman and Books of Magic. Miramax, for whom Gaiman wrote the English translation script of the anime film Princess Mononoke, has acquired the rights to Gaiman's novel Stardust and to his short story "Chivalry." The Jim Henson Company currently has the rights to Gaiman's novel Neverwhere. Director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) is adapting Coraline for the screen.
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