The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
This FAQ covers questions for the full content of both the book and TV series. There are spoilers. Please check this before messaging me: OrpiKnight’s FAQ FAQ
*This post has been edited since the original.
Before you ask a Good Omens question, look here. An incredibly impressive job of research and gathering.
And if you have been here before it’s time to look again. A lot has been added.
Thank you for bearing with us. We’re happy to say that, as promised, the PledgeManager has officially launched!
In case you missed it, we detailed earlier this week that the publication of the graphic novel has been pushed back from its original July 2024 estimate into Spring 2025 - you can read the full update here. We also want to take a moment to say that we have seen the outpouring of love and support on Kickstarter, and across various platforms, wishing Colleen well in her recovery and the time needed for the graphic novel - a huge thank you from all of the team for your understanding and patience, and for the genuine community and care we’ve seen these past few days. We appreciate you all.
PledgeManager
With this in mind, we think it’s important to underline: though PledgeManager has launched, you do not need to pay for your shipping fees immediately.
The PledgeManager is there for those who missed the campaign to order the graphic novel, and indeed for any backers who would like to upgrade, get some other add-ons, or the new items. You, as a pre-existing backer, should receive an email with information via Kickstarter and/or PledgeManager to inform you that this is now open to you - note, these are sent in waves of smaller batches, so if you don’t get yours immediately, don’t panic! It will likely take between 12-18 hours to process all the backers.
You are, of course, welcome to pay your shipping right away if you’d like, however we completely understand that you may want to wait until closer to the fulfilment time, or when more solid dates are confirmed, before actioning this.
For this stage, we have compiled a quick FAQ below covering some key questions:
Will the whole project be moving from Kickstarter to PledgeManager? No. This is just for the fulfilment side and logistics - all updates will still remain here.
Do PledgeManager backers get everything that Kickstarter backers do? No. While the remaining tiers will be made available for those who missed it, with certain stretch goals (e.g. additions to the book, loot boxes, etc), Kickstarter backers have a number of exclusives such as the Good Omens HQ discount code for when the store launches, and the backers only events.
My PledgeManager address will be different to what is listed on my Kickstarter. Is that fine? Yes. We are handling all logistics through PledgeManager and, as such, that is the only place where we will need your address. If you move or need to change any details, that will be the place to do so.
Can I change my address? Yes. You can update your address until we are at the shipping stage. We will keep this option open for as long as possible to ensure maximum flexibility around this.
How are shipping fees calculated? It is based on both weight and the country it is being sent to. We have been working over the past months to streamline processes and bring the costs down from their original starting point.
Do I have to pay just now? You do not need to pay immediately, but payment will need to be made prior to your items being shipped. You now have a bigger window during which you can make payment. As above, we will keep updating you on the progression of the publication schedule, should you be waiting for firmer dates before doing so.
What about taxes and import duty? UK: VAT is included in the costs UK backers pay, there should be no extra tax charges. US: We believe (but cannot guarantee) that imports under $800USD in value should not attract import duty, those pledges above may be taxed at import. EU & REST OF THE WORLD: If taxes or duties apply to your pledge, these will need to be paid at time of import into your country. We’ve spent months trying to integrate the costs at this stage, but in having the project open across the globe, it has proven too complex to be able to fully refine and cover all instances and locations, and we’ve been advised that this is the best route forward.
We know a lot of international backers, particularly in the EU – for example – will already be used to this process, and we will keep you all updated on any developments on this front. For all of our backers, we are working hard to make labelling and declaring all of the contents of your pledges as transparent as possible, in order to make taxing and importing as easy and affordable as possible.
I want to buy the new items, but am waiting to pay shipping. Are they limited? The pins, mugs, notebooks - all the new items specifically added to the PledgeManager are not limited and will be available regardless of whether you get them now, or months down the road. The only limited items are the remaining tiers that have moved over from the Kickstarter (e.g. the Obsidian Tier) that were limited to begin with, and a very limited run of the Alien Parking ticket. Everything else is fully available, in perpetuity.
Will you be adding extra items to the PledgeManager? No. What is there at launch is all we plan to include at this point - any new items afterwards will instead originate via the Good Omens HQ store.
Will Kickstarter backers get items first? Yes. We will have a staggered approach for fulfilment: Kickstarter backers, then PledgeManager, then everything that is moving to the Good Omens HQ store will subsequently be made available.
You can also view the more general PledgeManager FAQ at terrypratchett.com.
We will keep PledgeManager and logistical notes present in all the monthly updates going forward, but felt this warranted a dedicated one-off.
These are available as part of the PledgeManager. Another beauty from our pin designer, Carl Sutton.
Thanks again for your patience. Back in the April monthly update.
In short: :)
The Good Omens Pledge Manager has launched:
those who missed the Graphic Novel Kickstarter: Now you can order the Graphic novel, not all things that were in the original Kicstarter are available but there is stil a lot of options and fuckton of lovely ineffable add-ons! :)<3
those who participated inthe original GO GN Kickstarter: you should an email (Dunmanifestin needs more information to fulfill your reward) with a link that logs you (if not log manually) into the pledgemanager and lets you edit the order (add new add ons) (yep, my wallet weeps :D<3)
The addons:
I mean… how can one resist for example these I do not know… :D
When you and Terry wrote Adam Young's dialogue, there are lots of apostrophes in place of vowels and the g in "-ing" words, and phonetically writing things like "could of" instead of "could've" etc, so my question is were those choices meant to simulate a specific accent? Or just to show that the Them speak a bit imperfectly/lazily? Like was it supposed to be an Oxfordshire accent maybe...? I'm not from the UK so I don't know if it sounds like a silly question, but I was curious about what you heard in your heads while writing, thanks!
It’s the way William Brown and his friends talk in the Just William books we were emulating.
I’m a HS student and software developer, and I’m designing an app to help promote reading in kids. It’s similar to Duolingo, with rewards, a streak, and other incentives to encourage kids to read. The app is basically a fun reading tracker!
Anyways, my team and I were wondering if you could give us permission to use your quotes encouraging reading to add into our app?
This won’t go in any app store, we will make no profit; it’s essentially a big school project and is technically only experimental (for the moment). I’m just asking permission for your quotes because absolutely anything copyrightable needs to be done with permission of the author or company so we can cite that.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you consider it!
Hi Mr. Gaiman! My mother and I have different tastes in just about everything, but I showed her good omens and she loved it. I got her to watch Sandman by saying it was also based on something you’d wrote and she liked that very much. I’m currently telling her about Dead Boy Detectives, and she’d like to know how violent it gets. (She had to fast forward the bits with the diner in Sandman, she’s squeamish.) Is Dead Boy Detectives as violent as the first season of Sandman was?
I sent my family a screenshot of you responding to one of the “Neil banging out the tunes” posts, and my mom responded with, “HE’S ALIVE????”
I’m not sure why she thought you were dead. When I assured her you’re alive and well and on tumblr, she wanted to know if you were making more of the Good Omens tv series. The best I could give her in the moment was, “I’m like 90% sure the third season is greenlit??”
Glad you’re still with us, and thank you for all the fantastic things you’ve helped bring into the world! I picked up Neverwhere at a book fair as a kid, and shortly after a friend lent me Coraline. You definitely shaped a lot of what I look for in horror media today. I came from a big Terry Pratchett household so discovering Good Omens was such a uniting force between me, the weird gremlin child, and the rest of my zany family.
I've always been curious about this kind of thing, so I thought I'd ask, if you're willing to share, how did you become friends with @dianeduane and the other writers around here? Was it before or after you both became authors, before or after you made it big? Through writing or through other things?
I'm a scientist (also a profession where networking is a Skill to be Learned) and aspiring writer - also a big fan of yours and Mz. Duane's work - and I've always wondered how people form these networks of professional/friendly contacts.
Thank you, and have a great day!
I met Diane and her husband Peter (also a writer) about 35 years ago at some convention or other (my brain suggests Liverpool but it might have been anywhere in the UK) with Terry Pratchett, who knew them already. We bonded over J.P. Martin’s UNCLE books and ate enormous quantities of Chinese food. We have been friends ever since.
Hey Neil, how are you able to include multiple gods from different religions who may contradict each other with their beliefs? And do you have any advice on how to do that.
Just lucky, I guess. I mean, if you build a universe in which you can do that kind of thing, people accept it.
You guys rlly don’t realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered “relevant” enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips…it’s not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
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