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George R.R. Martin book delayed again
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Cathy
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Sep 30, 2009 07:08PM
Just got a message from Amazon that my pre-order of A Dance With Dragons is delayed another year! Has anyone heard anything about what's going on?
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Nothing on GRRM's website. It's probably not an additional delay, but rather the same delay we've been experiencing ever since the "I'm splitting the book so I can release part now and part in a shorter amount of time" thing started oh, 5 years ago.He's excited about his HBO series that is casting now. Between that, traveling all over the world to conventions, following two professional football teams, and editing every compilation in the Fantasy genre, he's hard at work on the book.
In short, he is STILL writing the thing. Amazon has no idea, nor have they ever known when to expect it. They are guessing, and they are praying that if the thing ever does appear to the public, that his readers will still be living and want to read the thing.......
GRRM's editor Anne Groell said back in July at the San Diego Comic-Con that an October 2009 completion of the book for a March 2010 publication (in the USA, the UK could get it in February) is not unreasonable, but that assumes the book is finished this month. GRRM himself said at FinnCon that him finishing the book in October is a best-case scenario.So Amazon was completely off saying you'd get the book in 2009. Until Martin actually finishes writing the book no street date on Amazon or anywhere else is worth spit.
I am looking forward to the HBO series. Maybe it will start before the book comes out and help remind me what happened in the earlier books. (Of course, now I have to subscribe to HBO again. Someone remind me when the time comes!) I'm going to have to read at least the last book again to remember anything after all of this time. But I'm not really complaining. I certainly can't write any kind of story myself and am grateful to those who can. I just wish it was faster :)
Wikipedia has some good summaries of the first books, for a quick reminder of what happened and who is who.
I think Martin's fame and other projects are getting in the way of his finishing the book.
