In the prologue to the American Gods novelette published in Legends 2, Neil wrote that he had origionally planned ton going with a Mr Nancy story for American Gods 2, before being asked to write the Shadow story for said collection; after writing it, he says he now knows what the next american gods story is going to be about. Does anyone know if any progress has been made on this story (presumably about shadow)?

Neil's prologue mentions two projects. The first, Anansi Boys, he has finished writing the first draft for. That book is only tangentially connected to AG (Neil describes it less as it having Mr. Nancy from American Gods as American Gods borrowing Mr. Nancy from this book iirc).
The second project, what the next American Gods story will be, Neil has not started yet, nor has any other info been released about it to my knowledge

if you ask me, sequels to particularly good books/ movies suck.

that's a bit... all encompassing...

Empire Strikes Back
Spider-Man 2
Ulysses (sequel to Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man)

To be fair, Empire isn't really a sequel, sence the original story was written, then edited into three parts.
Oh, and the Godfather, Part II, (three validates the point, though.)

before sunset is the first really truely good, actual sequel i think i've ever seen.

yea... i'm not a HUGE AG fan, but i'm prepared fo Anazi Boys to be anything from cheap hackwork to the best thing Neil's ever written... if something writes something great once, there's no reason he can't repeat it

maybe 'sequels to particularly good movies/books/videogames' suck when not done by the original creators?

oh, and for games: Half-Life 2

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yea... i'm not a HUGE AG fan, but i'm prepared fo Anazi Boys to be anything from cheap hackwork to the best thing Neil's ever written... if something writes something great once, there's no reason he can't repeat it

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Well, I don't think Boys will be cheap hackwork (I don't think Mr. Gaiman has ever written anything that could be classified as cheap hackwork). And I'm a huge fan of American Gods. It isn't going to be as serious as American Gods, though, so that might turn some folks off. Mr. Gaiman has made it obvious that Boys isn't a sequel. I think it's more like "To Say Nothing of the Dog" to "Doomsday Book" -- a shared world, shared language, and at least one shared character. But a totally different story, both in content and in tone.

Re sequels sucking, what about the Tales of Narnia? Wizard of Earthsea? The Lord of the Rings?

monkg, melodramatic LON goes back and forth, loving some of Neil's books and loathing others, like Stardust. I post this so we don't have to listen to him say it again (take a drink if he does)

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Re sequels sucking, what about the Tales of Narnia? Wizard of Earthsea? The Lord of the Rings?

Once again, LOTR was a TRILOGY. Complete at least in concept before released as tree seperate books.

In the afterward to my copy of AG, Neil says: "Anna Sunshine Ison unearthed a bunch of stuff for me on the West Coast Japanese internment camps, which will have to wait for another book to be written, for it never quite fitted into this one." Any speculation on how this might be worked into the sequel?

yes, but LOTR is also a sequel to the Hobbit, no?

point taken. I stand (sitting) corrected.