mais je ne sais pas, il n'a jamais parlé d'avoir publié ce chapitre quelque part, et s'il vient juste de le taper... 
Critique ! [L'étrange vie de Nobody Owens]
Il semblerait que ce soit le même recueil, mais en version UK... pas facile, ces jeux d'éditeurs, pour s'y retrouver dans les fils du forum !Sinon, je pensais à la nouvelle "déjà écrite il y a quelques temps" citée dans la news en ouverture de ce fil.En tous cas, "the witch's headstone" a le potentiel pour s'inscrire dans un roman, avec tous les personnages secondaires et l'univers qu'il créée, en plus des petites phrases à la Gaiman :"Mr. and Mrs. Owens had died several hundred years before it had been decided that beating children was wrong, and Mr. Owens had, regretfully, that night, done what he saw as his duty, and Bod's bottum stung like anything."
C'est de ça que je parlais !:arrow: http://www.elbakin.net/fantasy/news/558 ... eil-GaimanGillossen a écrit :Pas le même roman, mais ça fait plusieurs jours apparemment que Gaiman bloquait sur une nouvelle qu'il devait écrire et rendre pour hier dernier délai, et qui visiblement sous le coup de l'inspiration s'est transformé en quelque chose d'un peu plus long.
La couverture du principal ::arrow: http://www.elbakin.net/fantasy/news/628 ... eil-Gaiman
Ah, eh bien, confirmation pour la nouvelle, et la longueur d'un chapitre particulièrement important :
Chapter 7, so far 102 pages long and not quite done yet (probably tonight), will, I think, be more than twice as long as any of the other chapters/stories in the book. It also has some bits (written in the very small hours of last night) that are scarier than anything since the first couple of pages, and it does some very odd things with viewpoint, too. But I know that it's almost done since I've started worrying about the eighth and final chapter, and you don't do that until the one you're on is nearly done."The Witch's Headstone" (which will be chapter 4 of The Graveyard Book) was picked by Locus as one of the year's best novelettes. This makes me happy.
Des précisions sur le concept, et apparemment, Gaiman envisage déjà une suite !
It will be about twice the length of Coraline -- a novel, not a novella.It's eight stories, each more or less complete in itself, each different in tone, each story set about two years after the one that precedes it, that placed side by side make one big story. Or I hope they do.I think it's "all ages", whatever that means. It's a book I wish I'd had as a kid, and had always imagined as a children's book, but the reaction from the adults who've read it so far is scarily enthusiastic, and I'm not making any compromises in it. (Having said that, nobody has read any further than chapter six, except me, and Lorraine when she was typing it.)
Et on apprend aujourd'hui que le roman est quasiment terminé - relectures ! - et qu'il sera même plus long que Stardust, de 12 000 mots !Comme quoi...
The Graveyard Book is so close to being finished I can taste it. All the writing's been done and now it's a matter of typing it and reading it and fixing it. (Interestingly, and rather to my surprise, The Graveyard Book looks like it's going to come in at about 67,000 words. Which is a nice meaty read, and about 12,000 words longer than Stardust.)
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/search/la ... 20sketchesNeil Gaiman a posté sur son blog tout un tas d'essais de Dave McKean pour la couv du roman.
Bon, Kurt Busiek, qui n'est pas n'importe qui, a déjà eu l'occasion de lire le roman, et selon lui, c'est du tout bon, plus proche de Neverwhere ou Stardust que de American Gods ou Anansi Boys ! :)Ce n'est pas moi qui vais m'en plaindre. 
La couv de l'édition spéciale à venir chez Subterranean Press.