George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 207

Recipe for a Sunday Morning

Hiya kids, hiya, hiya.

You're too dumb to make this soup the way they're making it in Belfast. Start with Becky, Tom, and Boss. Take away two fathoms. Now you want the second course. In the dark the breaker of rocks seeks the living stone. But take away the fat guy with six wives, and the babe with the bumbershoot as well, that salty wench. Out, out. What's left tastes good, but just remember, there is no gamecock in aurochs stew. IMDB? What's that? I'm Dumb Boy? Won't help you here...

Jetboy Flies Again!

Coming in November...

For all those Wild Cards fans, both old and new, who have been complaining that the original series is impossible to find, and too damn expenseive when you do find it, I'm pleased to announce that Tor will be releasing a new edition of the first volume in the series, WILD CARDS, this November.

Here's an advance peek at the cover mock-up, which once again features the gorgeous art of Michael Komarck.



The new edition will be in trade paperback format.

If you've enjoyed INSID...

Dancing

No, this is not the promised post about Charles Dance. Later.

Just kicked Aeron Damphair's scraggly arse out of DANCE WITH DRAGONS. He only had the only chapter, and it will work better early in the next book than late in this one. (That's how it looks to me today, anyway. I reserve the right to change my mind).

So DANCE has gotten a smidge shorter. But is still not done.

The good news is that I seem to have written more than a hundred pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER already.

A Few Odds, Some Ends

Nightmarish day yesterday. The computer virus that we've been battling for weeks... often hammering it down, but never entirely eradicating it... upsurged again, and totally messed my Windows machine, so Ty had to spend the whole day dealing with it, and I could never get on line to read my emails.

He was finally successful, so I'm back in business. In fact, the computer is running better than it has for weeks. Maybe Ty has finally slain the beast. But I won't celebrate too soon.

Of course,...

Three for Three

This time at least it required a second round of clues. But you folks continue to be scary good. Obviously you know every actor and actress in the world, and have seen every film and television show ever made, no matter how obscure.

(Either that, or you've been using this new-fangled thing called the interweb. It's made of tubes, I hear).

Anyway, yes, you got it. Dany's handmaid Irri will be played by AMRITA ACHARIA (spelled Acharya on some sites, but I have it with the "i," and she seems t...

Winter Is Coming... to SKY

My readers in the UK have been emailing me for months, wanting to know whether GAME OF THRONES would be shown over there. The answer (I hoped) was "yes," but I could not give details, because (1) I didn't know, actually, and (2) some major negotiations were going on behind the scenes.

But now the GUARDIAN has broken the story, so all can be told:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/29/bskyb-buys-hbo-tv-catalogue

The short version: SKY has bought the UK rights to the entire HBO catalog of o...

You Guys Are Scary Good, the Sequel

And it did not take you very damn long to figure out the second role as well.

The part of Shae, the camp follower that Bronn the sellsword finds before the battle of the Green Fork and delivers to Tyrion Lannister, will be played by the amazing SIBEL KEKILLI.



Shae needs no introduction to any Ice & Fire reader, I would imagine. If you've forgotten her, you obviously weren't paying attention, so get off the internet at once and go and reread the books. There may be a pop quiz.

Sibel Kekilli is ...

You Guys Are Scary Good

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I cannot BELIEVE how fast you guys unravel even my most obscure and difficult clues. The CIA should be looking to hire you all to break cyphers.

(I'm going to "Adult Content" this post, which I've never done before, because... well it will be pretty self-explanatory).

Anyway, yes, you nailed the first one in three blinks and a winks. The role of Dany's handmaiden Doreah will be played by ROXANNE MCKEE.



Doreah was one of three slave girls given to Dany as a wedding prese...

Riddle Me This

Big brother's gift is the sexiest female. The sellsword's gift is like cherry cola. Take twelve steps to big brother's gift. No, no, the other one. Big brother's gift is not the sexiest female. The sellsword's gift was shopping when they found her. Big brother's gift has known a lot of ups and downs. No, no, the other one. Big brother's gift is a friend of the kraken's sister. The sellsword's gift once won a deer. Big brother's gift came from the great white north to the land of oak...

A Change on the Small Council

It saddens me to announce that we've had a casting change on the HBO series.

My old friend Roy Dotrice, who had been scheduled to play the part of Grand Maester Pycelle, has had to withdraw from the show for medical reasons. Roy was a colleague of mine from our days together on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, where he played the part of Father. More recently, he was my own personal choice as the reader on the audiobooks for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, and did a wonderful job of reading the first three vol...