George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 229

Signings in Ireland

November 3: 1:00PM

signing at
Eason & Son, Ltd.
20 Donegall Place,
Belfast, Belfast, BT1 5BA
028-9023-5070


November 5: 5:00 PM

signing at:
Eason's
40 O'connell Street Upper
Dublin, Ireland
+353 1 8733811

Those of you who cannot make the events can still order a signed book. Just call Eason's ahead of time and pre-order, and they will put your book aside for me to sign when I am there, then ship it to you afterwards.

Parris and I are looking forward to me...

Odds and Ends

Time is flying by again, and I am starting to get stressed out, as always before travel. I'm home this weekend, but the weekend following I am off to Fargo for Valleycon. Get back on Monday, have a few days at home, and then I am off again for my big trip across the pond to visit the shoot, do those signings in Ireland, and then down to Morocco for more of the pilot. And so much to do before I leave...

Travel has gotten so bloody complicated these days. Even with a good travel agent, the a...

Dance, Dance, Dance

Finished a Jon Snow chapter, and have just passed the 1100 page (manuscript pages, the page count in the final printed book will be different) mark on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. That's counting only finished chapters in something close to final form. I have considerably more in partials, fragments, and roughs.



Even with just the finished portions, DANCE is now longer than A FEAST FOR CROWS and A GAME OF THRONES, and I'm closing in on A CLASH OF KINGS. I do hope I can wrap things up before I appr...

Pity Poor Missouri

ConQuest (in Kansas City) and Archon (in St. Louis) are two of my favorite regional conventions. I've been attending both, off and on, for decades. I have lots of good friends in Missouri. Some of them are even football fans.

This has not been their year, to say the least. The Chiefs and the Rams are both 0-4, and the prospects of either one getting better soon is not high. And now, to drip some acid into the wounds, ESPN reports that right-wing gasbag Rush Limbaugh is attempting to buy t...

You Win Some, You Lose Some

Another convincing win for the Giants yesterday, though the opponent was the hapless Kansas City Chefs. "Our" Steve Smith looks like the real deal. A few more games like this and he will be "the" Steve Smith, and that guy in Carolina will have to become "the other" Steve Smith. Not so sure about Mario Manningham, who was dropping or bobbling every pass that came his way... but my, wasn't that touchdown run by Hakeem Nicks a pretty thing.

Eli's injury is a concern, though. Right now they ...

Trial by Combat

Here's the latest greens from Dark Sword Miniatures for their Ice & Fire range -- the long-awaited pair of Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, and Prince Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne, dueling to determine the guilt or innocence of Tyrion Lannister on the charge of regicide.



The sculpts are by Tom Meier, the one and only. Amazing work, as always.

You can see a lot more pictures on Dark Sword's website at http://darkswordminiatures.com/ Ser Gregor will also come with an alter...

October Already

The months never used to go by this fast.

Or the years. Gak. One more birthday and I'll be eligible for Social Security. That's bloody terrifying. It seems like only last week I was doing "new writer" panels at cons, scanning reviews to see if I was being mentioned as of the Young Turks of SF, and chasing after Parris (see avatar).

This should be a good month, though. The HBO pilot will start filming in just three more weeks or thereabouts. This time next month I will be in Belfast, visi...

Our Poacher...

... is at home on the internet as in the haunted forest. He has a home page, a Facebook page, a My Space page,

... has something in common with Peter Parker,

... began as a boy on a bike,

... has something in common with Daenerys, Jaime, and Ser Jorah,

... has already announced his appearance in GOT on his own home page, so why am I even bothering with these clues?

Just sayin'

Our Headless Brother...

... has been a pig, a roach, and a fat friend. He's been known to hang about with highlanders, rabbits, and dwarfs.

Just sayin'

Riders Wanted

Ever since HBO first took out an option on A GAME OF THRONES -- even before we got an actual production order -- I've been getting emails from readers who desperately wanted to be a part of the production. "I'll do anything!" some of you have written. ((Really, don't say stuff like that. Really. Don't.))

Well, now's your chance. The call has gone out for extras. Details here:

http://www.extrasni.com/news

Of course, you need to be in Northern Ireland, or get yourself to Northern Ireland. T...