George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 219

Want to Work on A GAME OF THRONES?

I get emails all the time from fans who want to be part of the filming.

Well, now's your chance.

It would help if you live in Northern Ireland. Or at least the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Some actual experience in film or television production would be good as well. I'm sorry, it really doesn't matter how much you love my books if you live in South Dakota and have no experience.

Anyway, here's the skinny:

http://northernirelandscreen.co.uk/page.asp?id=239

If you want to apply, please note ...

Suvudu Cage Match

The results are in for the first two brackets of the Suvudu cage matches.




Meanwhile, brackets three and four are still on-going, and Jaime Lannister is locked in his death struggle with that witch from Hogwart's. You can weigh in at:

http://www.suvudu.com/2010/03/cage-match-2010-round-1-15-jaime-lannister-versus-18-hermione-granger.html

Fond Memories of Spain

One thing I'm really really bad at is writing trip reports. I always have good intentions, especially when headed overseas, but whenever I get back from a long trip I find myself buried in emails, bills, snail mail, deadlines, and other pressing matters, and by the time I dig myself out from under it's time to get back to work.

I was sorting through some of my photos this evening, however, and I came across some pictures from our visit to Spain in 2008 that brought back some wonderful memorie...

Coming to Chicago

Now it can be told. I'll be headed back to Chicago (my old stomping grounds, in my younger days) next month, April 16-18, as a guest of Avatar Press at C2E2, the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo. For more details check out

http://www.avatarpress.com/conventions/c2e2

and the rest of the C2E2 website.

Avatar is bringing me in to help promote the debut of their adaptation of my historical horror novel FEVRE DREAM, due out that month. They're doing the novel as a ten-issue miniseries, script...

The Cage Matches...

... have begun at Suvudu: http://www.suvudu.com/

Jaime doesn't fight till Wednesday, but the first bouts are already underway. Michael Moorcock's Elric versus Stephen King's Gunslinger. Conan versus Harry Dresden. Gandalf versus Hiro (no, not the one from HEROES).

Make your voice heard. Your votes determine who will win.

Slaughter at Suvudu

March Madness begins on Monday at Suvudu, the Spectra/ Del Rey/ Bantam/ Ballatine website. You can find it here:

http://www.suvudu.com/

I'm going to need all my fans and readers to check out that site to help defend the honor of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros against a loathesome creature out of Hogwart's.

What does that mean, you ask? Well, I'll let the good folks at Bantam Spectra explain:

"Kaitlin Heller and David Pomerico—two obviously busy editors at Del Rey and Spectra—thought that it wou...

A Blast from the Past

I was startled looking at my website today when I saw the hit counter, which tells me the site has had more than 23 million hits since December of 2000.

Of course, I have to put that in perspective. It's really just the same forty-two people coming back again and again to see if DANCE is done yet, isn't it?

(I suspect the Not A Blog actually gets MORE visitors than my main site. A mention here -- of a forthcoming appearance, a book sale, a news item -- seems to generate a lot more response ...

Off Season

Like rust, the NFL never sleeps.

The offseason is already in full swing, and the Jets just acquired Antonio Cromartie from the Chargers for a third-round draft pick... in 2011! Wow. Sounds like a great deal to me. Cromartie is a first round talent, led the league in interceptions just a few years ago. And paired with Darrell Revis, he'll give Gang Green the best CB tandem in the league... which should make our #1 ranked defense even better. (We'll get Kris Jenkins back as well).

Hey, maybe...

Going, Going...

My stock of those "Washington's Birthday" copies of INSIDE STRAIGHT (see below for details) signed by seven of the contributing writers, is almost gone. Something like four left. It's first come, first served, so if you want one, this is the time to move.

Once those last few copies are gone, the special's over, and it will be back to the usual price for copies signed only by yours truly.

The Green Light

Thanks, everyone. The outpouring of enthusiasm has been amazing. The comments are piling up here faster than Ty can unscreen 'em, my phone is ringing off the hook, and my email is exploding. And of course the story is all over the internet. Quite a day.

For the six of you who may not have seen it elsewhere, here's a production still from the pilot sent out by HBO.



Lots, lots more to come in the days and weeks and months ahead. I will probably not be the best source for most of it, however....