Discussing Stephen King’s recent announcement that he’ll stop publishing five books from now, Neil Gaiman writes: “I’m proud of him. It takes a lot of guts to decide to stop doing something that you can do and that works, when you’re finished….Not writing, when you don’t feel you have anything to say, is an art that very few writers have mastered.”

And a Sharon from Texas writes asking Mr. Gaiman about secret signals, and it occurs to me, hey, I know a Sharon from Texas…