What, pray, is this SFOHA magic of which you speak? From context, I would guess the SF is sci-fi, and at that point, I'm at a loss. The rest sounds like it was fun (I haven't read American Gods, but I loved Gaiman's work on Sandman and his collaboration with Terry Pratchett for "Good Omens" is one of my all time favorite books).

I gather your a writer and reader of speculative fiction, so... if there JUST HAPPENED to be a couple of crazy journallers (say, here or at OpenDiary.com) trying to get an online writing group off the ground... Would you be at all interested? Speaking COMPLETELY hypothetically, of course. :-)