this announcement brough to you courtesy of hopeless fangirling

[freckles_and_doubt]

ooooh! Neil Gaiman not only won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (about which, yay!), he just announced that Neil Jordan is writing and directing a live-action film version. This makes me very, very happy: Jordan's Company of Wolves is a haunting, haunted and truly amazing cinematic adaptation of Angela Carter's postmodern fairy tale, and one of my favourite films. (Freudian imagery, Gothic forests, fearsome werewolf transformations, embedded narrative, self-conscious invocation of the oral voice, and Terence Stamp as the Devil in a Rolls Royce). He does atmosphere, period feel and complicated subtext with focused virtuosity. I'd be even happier if Neil Gaiman was scripting it himself, but I expect good things.

Still working my butt off, but yesterday was an 11-hour day instead of Monday's 13, so perhaps things are looking up. Also, small but measurable improvement in the hobbling. We may yet survive this, troops! she says, charging down the Balaklava valley...