George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 211

Wild Cards lot for sale

I get a lot of emails from readers who are interested in reading the Wild Cards series, but want to start at the beginning and can't find many of the older, out of print titles.

And yes, while we do hope to have those books reissued eventually, right now some of the old Wild Cards are VERY hard to find.

I just noticed a guy on ebay selling his entire 20-volume set, however:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200489981558

Have no idea what his reserve is... but he has all twenty vo...

Fantasy Flight Times Two

The boys and girls at Fantasy Flight Games have really been kicking ass lately. Two new Ice & Fire releases are either in the stores or on the way.

First, there's BATTLES OF WESTEROS, a brand new -- well, I don't know, would you call it a board game, a miniatures game, a war game? -- whatever it is, it looks great. Based on the BattleLore system that FFG acquired. Fight your own Stark/ Lannister wars.



I've just received my own copies of this one. FFG has done a bang-up job, as always. The ...

Still Talking

I am interviewed... in Spanish:

http://triadamagica.blogspot.com/2010/06/trimaginas-primer-numero.html

And hey, I don't even SPEAK Spanish!

I hope I said something smart.

No News Is No News

Sorry, no casting puzzles for you today.

Offers are out on quite a few parts, both major and minor, but I'm not aware of any deals closing besides the ones already announced. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe next week. Who knows? These things can take time.

Meanwhile, readings and auditions continue for a lot of other roles, and I've been reviewing tapes when I can. Lots and lots of kids of late. Mycah. Rickon. Tommen. Myrcella. Casting kids is really tough, especially when they only have a very...

Dancing in Circles?

((Some of what follows may be vaguely spoilerish. Don't read if you hate spoilers).

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS just got a little shorter.

What's happened is, I've decided to move two completed chapters, from Arianne's POV, out of the present volume and into THE WINDS OF WINTER. This is something I've gone back and forth on. Arianne wasn't originally supposed to have any viewpoint chapters in DANCE at all, but there's this... hmmm, how vague do I want be? VERY vague, I think... there's this event t...

Another GOT Hire

Everyone is all in a frenzy for casting news, I know, I know... but it takes a lot of talent to make quality television and film, and not all of that talent is in front of the cameras.

David Benioff and Dan Weiss and the good folks at HBO have been assembling a terrific team for GAME OF THRONES. I thought you all might like to hear about one of the latest hires come aboard -- world-class makeup artist PAUL ENGELEN has signed up to do the hair and makeup design for our series.

You may or may ...

Quarry Query

The LARNE TIMES broke the story a "massive castle" being build in an old quarry near Magheramorne for HBO's GAME OF THRONES. The quarry is about forty minutes north of Belfast, near the town of Larne.

I can confirm that, more or less. The set being built at Magheramorne will be our Castle Black. Not actually THAT massive a castle -- much of Castle Black will be created in post with CGI -- but it will come complete with a fully operable winch elevator, David and Dan tell me.

Google tells ...

Good News from Great Britain

The Jack Vance tribute anthology that I co-edited with Gardner Dozois, SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH, has been announced as one of the finalists on this year's shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards. We're in the Best Anthology category, natch.

LOCUS has a full list of nominess available at http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-british-fantasy-award-nominees/

Needless to say, Gardner and I are thrilled by the news. It's a great honor for us, and for Jack Vance, without whose seminal work mod...

Fessing Up

Time to pull back the curtain on the latest roles cast.

No big surprises for those who read the comments on the last two entries. You guys did an amazing job with the clues, as always. I can see I'm going to have to make them harder in future. Either that, or we need to start hiring more obscure actors.

But not this time around.

"The old maester has lived many lives, brief but numerous. In his youth he fought in the wars that some say inspired all of this. He has been a king and a god, but he...

and another

He doesn't have a lot to say, but he says it a lot. He's not a muslim, not a pagan, not a scientologist, but he might be a town in Scotland.