Author Neil Gaiman. — Pic by Kimberly ButlerNEW YORK, Aug 8 — Busy novelist Neil Gaiman's next piece of published adult/young adult fiction will be called “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, due summer 2013, confirmed the author and his publisher.

The British-born writer has children's picture book “Chu's Diary” out in January 2013, with a sequel already planned, and a new entry to the “Sandman” graphic novels also in the works.

Two others already identified are a sequel to Nordic fantasy “Odd and the Frost Giants”  and a novel about the subject of storytelling itself, called “Fortunately, the Milk”. — Reuters