GRRM’s official site has an updated “Samples” section, featuring a Tyrion chapter from A Dance with Dragons.
GRRM’s official site has an updated “From My Readers” section featuring an interesting license plate, as well as updates to the “Appearances” section indicating that he’ll be attending this years Comic-Con in San Diego, and “Links” section. Finally, he has made a new entry to his “Not a Blog”, discussing the renovations of his house and his progress on A Dance with Dragons (including some slightly spoilerific information).
GRRM’s official site has an updated “What I’m Reading” section featuring glowing praise of Walter Jon Williams‘s finale to his “Dread Empire’s Fall” series, Conventions of War.
Over at Tom Meier’s website, Thunderbolt Mountain, a gallery of user-contributed pictures of Tom’s models that they’ve had painted. The latest addition comes straight from GRRM, who sends a lovely picture of a mounted ranger of the Night’s Watch (an early casting for the forthcoming Andy Chambers-designed wargame from Testors). The paint job was commissioned from Dave Gulczynski of WarPaint Studios, who did an excellent job.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with the announcement in “News” of Tuf Voyaging being nominated for Best Translated Novel in Japan’s Seiun Awards, the addition of Germany and Taiwanese covers for A Storm of Swords in “Covers”, and an addition to the “Kits & Castings” section of “Knights”.
Locus, the premiere trade magazine of the SF/F publishing industry, runs a yearly poll which culminates in the Locus Awards (given out the same weekend as the Nebulas). Lately, the poll has been open to anyone who’ll take the time to go through and vote on it. If you’re interested in voting in such categories as Best SF Novel, Best Fantasy Novel, Best Young Adult Novel, Best Artist, and more, go here. The deadline is this Saturday.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with the announcement of the availability of Testors’s Ruby Ford miniatures set in “News”, as well as a picture of fan-made miniature of Brynden Tully in the “Knights of Westeros” section and some Spanish plastic miniatures in the “Plastic Chivalry” section of “Knights”.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with comments about A Feast for Crows‘s Hugo nomination in “News” and a new appearance date in “Appearances”.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with a new entry at his Not a Blog. In it, he remarks about several HBO dramas, his inability to write a journal with any regularity, the fact that he has been working on A Dance with Dragons (the last week of work has been focused to Jon and the Wall, a storyline which he thinks is greatly benefiting from the split), and finally that he has settled on a new title for the seventh (and hopefully final) novel in the series.
George R.R. Martin has been unstinting in his thanks to Robert Jordan for his support for the series (including providing the key blurb which helped secure a great number of readers at the start of the series), and Jordan has been equally-unstinting in his praise for GRRM’s work. So, we are saddened to report that all those foolish rumors of the past have now come to pass, as Robert Jordan himself writes to Locus magazine to report that he has been diagnosed with a rare, likely-terminal blood disease. All the details can be found in the linked letter.
Our thoughts are with Mr. Jordan, his wife, and his family. We hope he gets the 30 years he wants so as to be able to write all the stories he wishes to write.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with a news entry concerning the demise of iBooks but the promise that Wild Cards would soon return with a new, exciting trilogy. The "Links" section has been updated with several new links to Wild Cards fansites. Finally, the "What I’m Reading" section has been updated with glowing praise for Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with a new entry in "What I’m Reading", a new foreign-edition cover of Fevre Dream in the "Cover Art" section, and a new entry reminding fans to vote in this years Hugo awards in his Not a Blog.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is accepting questions for an interview with GRRM which will be conducted in April, in time with the release of Voyager’s paperback release of A Feast for Crows.
A review of Stephen King’s latest horror novel, Cell, has been published in the Washington Post, written by none other than GRRM. It’s a very good examination of one writer’s work by another, with some incisive observations sprinkled throughout.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with some new entries in the &;quotFrom My Readers" section and two new (and quite nice) covers for the Japanese edition of Tuf Voyaging in the "Cover Art" section.