As mentioned in Neil's blog :

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Regarding tickets for the Toronto signing: There are two available! My fiance and I are unable to attend (much to our vast disappointment) and so we'd like our tickets to go to other fans instead of being wasted. My friend Sarah is holding them for me right now, and can be contacted at aldiwitchie@yahoo.com by anyone who's interested. These are signing tickets, not the general admission ones. I figured your blog would be the best place to advertise!

[neil] Actually, [the blog] isn't the best place to advertise, otherwise the blog would turn over the next few months into a place for people needing to shift tickets for events, clogging up everything else. But I'm happy to post yours as a way of pointing people to the places that can be used to swap, sell, or otherwise dispose of or obtain tickets and things:

http://www.neilgaimanboard.com/6/ubb.x is the forum/message board place of http://www.Neilgaiman.com. I met lots of the people who post there at Fiddler's Green last year and they are a fine, strange bunch.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/neil_gaiman/ is the LiveJournal community, while over on usenet, alt.fan.neil-gaiman is the haunt of the thingies: mad, bad and dangerous to gnaw.

All of these places will be good for those of you who have tickets to give to others, or to find other people going to the same events you are. Or to grumble that I never come and sign books in your country...[/neil]

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Whew. I think that's it. I need more coffee. Again, feel free to ask any questions of the mods. If there's anything at all that you need , just let us know.

[hijack already]

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I met lots of the people who post there at Fiddler's Green last year and they are a ..., strange bunch.

is this good??

hehe, i'll still say hi! from all of us when I get to the next signing

[/early hijack]

Guess I should ask here then

Anyone have any spare tickets for the Manchester signing? Anyone at all? Pleeeeeeeeeease?

I booked 8 tickets for it which now, after so many unanswered phonecalls I've lost count have been sold on because I couldn't get through to the store to confirm payment. I've had a big expidition planned since Neil first announced the date which now apparently won't be happening...

so erm, yeah... anyone? I'll pay pretty much anything for them (within reason, I'm a poor starving student ) and will love you for ever and ever and ever and...

ahem, cheers anyway

Clare

Someone has a Mirrormask London ticket here

If you're replying to that offer, do so here or PM Randall directly or email him.

Wolves in the Walls, tomorrow 13 April, 2.30pm, followed by an interview with Neil, to which he has cordially invited (via his blog) the audience to stick around.

Venue: Lyric threatre, which is about two mins walk from Hammersmith tube in West London.

I have two tickets, and it looks increasingly likely we won't be able to go (work and childcare clash, aaaargh...)

I haven't yet offered them back to the Lyric for resale, but if there is anyone on these boards who would like first dibs, please do send me a private message.