On top of all the other promotional endeavors that we’ve seen for A Feast for Crows, word has just arrived that Bantam Spectra is producing a series of eight podcasts by George. The first one is available today, and discusses the origins of “A Song of Ice and Fire”.

You can get to the podcasts through several different means:

iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=200114114

RSS:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGeorgeRRMartinPodcast

You’ll need to have iTunes or an RSS Reader to subscribe to the podcasts.

You can also click here to listen to Episode 1: The Birth of A Song of Ice and Fire:
http://a1018.g.akamai.net/f/1018/19022/1d/randomhouse1.download.akamai.com/19022/audio/grrm/Episode1.mp3

We’ll post the links to future episodes as they are made available.