Neil Gaiman's Final US Book Signing Tour
December 20, 2012
HarperCollins will release Neil Gaiman's adult novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, in June 2013. The Newbery Medal-winning author will embark on a book tour throughout the United States, but he expects it to be his final one. In addition to this adult project, Gaiman also has five children's books in-the-works; two picture books starring a panda named Chu and three middle-grade projects. Chu's Day will come out in January 2013.
"I think the OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE tour will be the last actual signing tour I ever do. They’re exhausting, on a level that’s hard to believe. I love meeting people, but the sixth hour of signing, for people who have been standing in a line for seven hours, is no fun for anybody. (The last proper US signing I did, it lasted over 7 hours and I signed for over 1000 people. I'd suspect a lot of the signings on this tour will be like that, or bigger.) So I’m going to try and make this tour the glorious last US book signing tour, and then stop doing book signing tours for good."