Fantasy Flight Games’ Art of Ice and Fire will be available for direct order directly from FFG in about a week.
Word is that Dabel Brothers Productions, who have recently launched their newly re-designed site and forums, are set to announce details regarding a comic book adaption of "The Sworn Sword" the second Dunk & Egg novella published in Legends 2. More news to follow shortly, and perhaps a first look at what’s coming.
Mark McKinnon, president of Guardians of Order, has posted an update regarding the shipping status of the RPG. For those who just can’t wait, the OGL d20 PDF is still on-sale at half the price of the hardcover edition and is available for immediate download.
Today is, of course, the official release date for the UK edition of a A Feast for Crows. If you haven’t already gotten the book (it has, after all, been out early from Amazon.co.uk as well as several British bookstores), its definiely time to order now.
Fantasy Flight Games has announced that the latest version of the FAQ for A Game of Thrones: The Board Game has been put online on the official game website.
Tom Meier of Thunderbolt Mountain has posted another early preview image of the work he’s doing for Testors. It’s for the 54mm line of figures, and depicts Rhaegar fighting at the ruby ford.
George has mailed out some information regarding his forthcoming signings, including the addition of new dates. The information can be read here.
GRRMs official site has been updated with a new post to his weblog, Not a Blog. He discusses his travels over the last months and his gruelling schedule of forthcoming signing tours and apperances. He also discusses his one signing policy, which is that he’ll only sign three items at a time, but individuals are welcome to return to the end of the line to get three more items signed.
Jaime Sims has sent along two more drawings of Illyrio from his work for Testors. They can be found in the Gallery.
Word is flying that Amazon.co.uk has begun to ship copies of A Feast for Crows to customers who have pre-ordered it. Currently, the listing at Amazon.co.uk seems to confirm this, as it now indicates that the novel is now "usually dispatched within 24 hours". If you’ve been holding off on ordering, this may well be the time to do it if Amazon.com really is delivering the book prior to the official release on the 17th.
GRRM’s official site has been updated with some more information regarding Testors’s wargame and resin statues, as well as a few more pictures from fans.
C-SPAN’s Book TV aired a panel program featuring several book reviewers, titled NYT Great Read in the Park: Book Reviews and Publishing (RealVideo stream available).
The FAQ has been updated to include links to Brotherhood without Banners and our history of the War of the Usurper.
The Testors goodness keeps coming, as the legendary Tom Meier has posted images of the first four Night’s Watch wargame miniatures that he’s completed.
As mentioned earlier, we had high hopes of getting more images from Testors down the road ... and now we have them. Check out the Gallery to see how Jamie Sims’s art has been translated into three dimensions thanks to this series of pictures of the Hodor, Bran, and Summer scene in "green" form.
