Where Things Are At

[grrrm]

Woah!  What the heck, nine days without a post?  Sorry FTBG fans, I thought Pesci was picking up the slack while I have been swallowed up by pimply-faced goons wanting me to edit their college essays.  Alas, it appears I was wrong.  Looks like Liotta has to come to the rescue yet again.

So where are we, anyways?  Well, September is upon us, and

Comments

Le'ts Make it Literal

[anonymous]

I think Martin's sword/nose metaphor regarding his latest attempt to resolve the Meereenese knot should be made real, to give us fans something to cheer about.

Every time Martin fails to make progress on Dance, something should be cut off. If he felt he might soon be "twanger-less," I'll bet Dance would be finished within a week.

Roland of Gilead

Re: Le'ts Make it Literal

[anonymous]

hes so fat he cant see his twanger anyway

Where wolves?

[anonymous]

I'm boggled by all this attention for The Skin Trade. I made the mistake of reading it in one of those truly terrible Dreamsongs anthologies. It's some hackneyed piece of crap about a stereotypically tough female PI with a chip on her shoulder and daddy issues who takes on a bunch of local bluebloods who just happen to be werewolves. Not a particularly good story but I guess the entertainment industry will take what it can get in the general rush of competition.

Re: Where wolves?

[anonymous]

I think it's due in part to the current craze for vampires. Now that there's a lot of vampire-related material out there (Twilight, True Blood, and I think there's another TV series this season), maybe publishers/filmmakers want to see if the other traditional half-human supernatural being, the werewolf, can achieve mass popularity and generate masses of profits.

But whether or not my hypothesis is right, I'm convinced that the interest in Skin Trade itself is mostly due to Martin's ASOIAF-based fame, the same way an author's older works are often republished in the wake of him/her achieving huge popularity later in his/her writing career.

- Krafus

Re: Where wolves?

[anonymous]

The Skin Trade is also the most recent soft porn novel by Laurell K Hamilton. I bet the people who made this deal got confused and thought it was an Anita Blake, not some half remembered story by someone who has garnered most of his popularity from a multi volume epic fantasy.
Chris, the Aussie one

Good for George

[anonymous]

I give George a lot of shit, but I have to say that I do appreciate his recent effort at transparency.
Maybe it was Sanderson calling him out, or who knows, but I'm happy that it's going on.
Process transparency often precedes real production.

Re: Good for George

[anonymous]

When did Sanderson call Mudflaps out? And how did I miss it?

[anonymous]

Ol' Georgie has posted yet another update on ADWD. There's been a lot of updates lately.

"I decided to take a break from tearing and fumbling at the Meereenese knot, and completed a chapter about another character today. A character who is very far from Meereen.

Finishing the chapter felt good. Especially since it also completed that character's arc for the book. Admittedly, she has only two chapters in DANCE, so I am not sending up any flares. But hey, I'm done with one of them for the present, that's something.

Only thirty-eight more POVs to wrap up..."

[anonymous]

He's being a smartarse about the 38 POV's, but the fact that he says he's given up on the Meereenese knot could mean one of 2 things: there was never a Meereenese knot and it was only something he said to get everyone off his back or he's given up on the Meereense knot for this book and he'll hold it over to the next one and that could mean that ADwD is in fact the 2nd part of the 4th book and that will now be coming out in 3 parts, not 2 and the amount of books for the series has just gone from 7 - 8

[anonymous]

Keep in mind that football season opened last night, and that blew any chance of him getting anything done until at least February. But we will get some nice weekly updates about how his Giants fared.