I know that Neil has experienced a great deal of success in many areas of writing, and that novels were an areaa that he explored at a later age. I've looked at some of his bio's to try and figure out a simple question of mine.

How old was Neil when he published his first novel?

Real Book... not comics, graphic novels, or other types of media... well you know what I mean. How old was he?

was Good Omens before Neverwhere?

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Good Omens before Neverwhere

Duran Duran before either

ah. novel on his own....I can't go through the list right now, but you've got it.

And Neverwhere was a television series before, the novel was just the TV series in book form. Kinda a grey area, I guess.

1st journalism: 1984
1st nonfiction book: 1984
1st comic: 1986
1st graphic novel: 1987
1st novel, collaboration: 1990
1st novel solo: 1996 - Neverwhere

oh, and he was born in 1960, so mid-30s

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Originally posted by When_lingers:
And Neverwhere was a television series before, the novel was just the TV series in book form. Kinda a grey area, I guess.

If you go that route, Neil only has 3 novels that were solo and not anything else before it.
American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), and Anansi Boys (2005)

Than Kew, Oh Source.

For me, it is more a question of the manner in which it was written, and the intention. Neverwhere was conceptionalised as a series, more like a comic in that sense than a novel, and I've understood it. As for Stardust, I don't know how Neil wrote it and under what context. If it was written as one full story, or as a 4 part series.

I'm not trying to be difficult, I just find it interesting to think about, and to look at in how Neil writes and how these stories are conceptualised. Of course, from what he says, he doesn't actually know until he writes it.

GMZoe's good like that.

...and he needs to post more often.

*pokes GMZoe with the Posting Stick*