The Weerde Book 1: A Shared World Anthology

Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. show more The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Roz Kaveney is a British Writer, critic, and Poet, born on July 9, 1949. She attended Pembroke College, Oxford. Her focus was on Martian poetry and belonged to a poetry group. For a time she worked as a sex worker, transgender rights activist, a writer (articles printed in The Independent and The Guardian), and editor (META magazine). She made show more multiple appearances on Television show After Dark. She is the author of Dialectic of the Flesh, and Rituals-Rhapsody of Blood. Her book Tiny Pieces of Skull won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less