An absolutely fantastic interview with Neil Gaiman over at Bookslut. Aside from great fiction, Gaiman is known for signing every book, no matter how long it takes:

The worst one ever was in Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2001. Brazilians are lovely people. But they don’t hold back on how they feel. And 1,200 showed up and at 700 the shop decided to cap the line, thinking that was enough. The 500 people left behind apparently explained to them in a very enthusiastic and cheerful and Brazilian sort of way that they could of course shut down the line if they wanted to but those 500 people would destroy their store if they did. And they thought about it for a minute, reopened the line, and I signed for all 1,200. But I only discovered this happened until the end of the day. I stayed until 2 o’clock in the morning, and I lost my voice.

Gaiman’s got a new book out, by the way, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.