‘Graveyard party’ nets local bookstore visit from author
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WINNIPEG – Popular fantasy author Neil Gaiman is coming to Winnipeg Dec. 15 to visit the bookstore that won a contest to mount the best “graveyard party” this past Halloween.
McNally Robinson Booksellers in Polo Park was one of 40 independent stores in North America that took up the British-born author’s online challenge to hold a ghoulish party for young readers. This was a promotion for his recent young-adult title The Graveyard Book.
The Winnipeg store tied with The Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Ga., according to a posting on Gaiman’s blog.
All entrants were judged on the quality of a video of the party they submitted. Gaiman’s publisher in New York, HarperCollins, helped with the judging.
Rachel Bergen, McNally Robinson’s events co-ordinator, said about 150 kids attended the party on Oct. 29.
“We’re thrilled,” Bergen said. “He’s one of those authors that touches people on different levels.”
His appearance will take place at 6 p.m. Dec. 15 at McNally Robinson Polo Park, Bergen says.
Gaiman, who lives near Minneapolis, is known as a graphic novelist, a screenwriter, a youth novelist and an adult novelist. Most of his work, which has won numerous awards, is in the fantasy and science-fiction genres.