George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 208

For the collector who wants everything I ever did... and I mean EVERYTHING, no matter how short, inconsequential, and trivial... a whole bunch of old comic fanzines from the 60s and 70s have just been posted up on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/mrdo!mrdo!_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZQQ_sopZ12

Some of these have stuff by me in 'em. Letters, mostly. Maybe an early story or two. I haven't check the whole listing to find out.

You can doublecheck against the listing of my juvenalia on m...

The Vale of Arryn may have remained aloof from the War of the Five Kings in my novel, but it is still going to be a part of the series of GAME OF THRONES. In the recent fact sheet, HBO revealed the names of a number of the actors who will portraying characters from the Vale, so I thought I would introduce you to some of them here.

As Lysa Arryn, widow of Jon Arryn and Lady of the Eyrie and sister to Catelyn Stark, we were fortunate to get the services of the wonderful Scottish actress KATE DI...

More cool news. The good folks at Green Ronin have informed me that PERIL AT KING'S LANDING has been nominated for an ENnie Award in the "Best Adventure" category.

The ENnie Awards are the most prestigious honors in role-playing these day, I am told. Green Ronin also has nominees in the "Best Game" and "Product of the Year" categories.



The voting is going on RIGHT NOW, and is open to the public. To cast your ballot, go to

http://www.ennie-awards.com/voting/ballot.asp

In other gaming news, Gr...

I'm informed that John Hodgman has twittered about reading GAME OF THRONES.

Hey, he's a PC.

A funny guy, too. Love him on THE DAILY SHOW.

Very cool.

So I accidentally bumped into this on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ

I came away feeling I had seen this before. Or something very similar.

I had:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q

Have to admit, this sent a cold chill up my spine.

Deja vu can be a bitch.

Or, as someone famous once said, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Falling way behind here on LiveJournal, I know. I've got lots more parts and actors to talk about, the RTS game to announce, the Eenie Awards....

Snowing heavily in Santa Fe, however, and I've been on a bit of a roll. I'll get to all that other stuff when I can. Kong comes first.

Pat's just died. A quick death, but a messy one. Ugly, painful, humiliating. But hey, he earned it.

Off I go to shovel Snow.

The big HBO fact sheet, seen below, announced a whole bunch of new castings. Too many for me to discuss all at once, unless I wanted to devote the whole day to it. Which I don't. I have a big monkey to wrestle.

Let me say a few words about a few, however. (I'll get to the others in good time).

In the part of Marillion the singer (who is NOT named after the band), we have EMUN ELLIOTT, a young Scottish actor who has recently appeared in BLACK DEATH with Sean Bean.



He could almost pass for a...

Arthur and Morgana are familiar with this wildling wench.

In the books she has not met Theon's sister (yet). Real life? Well...

Actress and character both made a splash.

(Oh, and I LOVED her reading. We all did. But that's not a clue).

And here's the big blast from HBO that I have been promising:

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GAME OF THRONES

HBO Entertainment
Season one will total 10 episodes
Production is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is will begin principal photography on July 26, 2010.

"Game of Thrones" has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen and will shoot in the Paint Hall studio, Belfast, as well as various locations in Northern Ireland. A second location for production w...

Damn, you guys are good.

Yes, you got it. The third and final part I hinted at is the Old Bear, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, and the actor playing him is the fabulous James Cosmo.

I knew that I referenced BRAVEHEART or TROY or any of his other numerous film credits, you folks would use IMDB and ferret him out in seconds, so I went all the way to my childhood as a funny book fan for a clue -- a short-lived comic that lasted only six issues half a century ago, called COSMO THE MERRY MARTIAN.



Cosm...