Sunday, 2nd of October, 2005

Just sent to Neil Gaiman at his FAQ page:
Dear Neil,
So. You’re in Brisbane, recording your band’s new album. You sadly missed Neil (er, this second person thing is getting confusing, but you press on with it) when he was in the country recently, being out of your home city of Sydney when he was there, passing through Canberra but not when he was there, and being unavoidably elsewhere during the convention in Melbourne.

So now you’re busy 12 hours out of each day and luckily find one day off when you can visit Brisbane’s lovely Pulp Fiction, and there, of course, you purchase Anansi Boys. Can’t wait to read it! You even blog about buying it at http://www.frogworth.com/blog/archives/2005/10/01/fanboyisme/ - mentioning how you saw Serenity that night and enjoyed reading a fragment of poorly-copyedited co-interview with Joss & Neil at Time magazine’s website.

Then as you’re beginning to read and remember how excellent the first bit was when Neil put it up on his site, something falls out of the book. It’s a an “Avery” note-sticker-thing, plain white, and it’s clearly signed by Neil Gaiman.
And you ask yourself, what does this mean? Does it mean I’ve won a prize? (Other, that is, than the prize of getting a sticker that you think is signed by Neil inside your copy of the book.)

Then you realise that if you were Neil, asking yourself this question might be of some use, but asking Neil would be of altogether better use, so you go and do so.
As an afterthought, you wonder what the protocol is here: do you stick the sticker into the frontispiece of the book or something, or just leave it unpeeled-off inside the front cover? It’s important.

One Response to “more Neil fanboyisme”

1. Yunyu says:
   October 11th, 2005 at 3:23 pm

   lucky u. you actually got a signed copy! The book was a good consolation though.
   Hope your recording went well. I’m still writing a performance proposal for conflux. Would Fourplay still be interested in playing with us next year/?
   details on www.conflux.org.au