George R.R. Martin in announcing his return from another of this year's conventions, took a few seconds to voice his disdain for the TSA. It appears that whenver he travels, the TSA goes out of their way to offend him. For a while I thought that George was being George but I then realized that they were actually offending him!

Yes, the TSA offends ( Read more... )

As readers of GRRM, we have spent some money and some time in being part of a wonderful experience. Speaking from my perspective, I can say that I have devoted a few hundred dollars and hundreds of hours to the ASOIAF phenomenon. Yes, I bought all the books in the series, the graphic novels, and even the GRRM: RRetrospective. I did not purchase ( Read more... )

If GRRM is anything, he is consistent.

Last year he made noises about getting A Dance With Dragons done before he left for Europe. Specifically, on April 13, 2008, he posted on his Not A Blog:

"Of course, I need to finish A DANCE WITH DRAGONS before I leave, or else my publishers will hunt me down and kill me. So that's pretty much all I'll be doing ( Read more... )

Well today is June 20th and the question is whether we'll get an announcement soon about George R.R. Martin's long delayed book, A Dance With Dragons. As my fellow long-time but not so silent sufferers well know, George is about to begin his fantasy convention travel season.

As he has proudly proclaimed in the past, he does not do any writing on the ( Read more... )