George R.R. Martin's Blog, page 238

Here's something cool: the new miniature of Tyrion Lannister, soon to be rolling out from Dark Sword Miniatures.

The mini hasn't been released yet. This is a prototype, painted by the amazing Jen Haley in a color scheme to match her gorgeous versions of Jaime and Cersei, which can be seen below.



You can order your own Dark Sword miniatures at http://darkswordminiatures.com/

And Jen has her own website at http://www.paintrix-miniatures.com/ where you can see a lot more of astonishing brushwork. S

It can't be June already. It really can't.

Where have the months gone?

I am so depressed.

Ty has just informed me that there's someone impersonating me on Twitter, using my name as their handle.

For the record, I'm not on Twitter and don't intend to be on Twitter. Live Journal and my website are as much as I can handle. So whatever this clown says or does, 'tain't me.

I am also not on My Space, Facebook, or any of the other usual internet watering holes.

Just here.

With my library tower complete at last, we've finally started moving things out of storage. We were actually able to give up one of our three lockers, and get down to two. Some of the stuff has been in storage so long that we'd forgotten that we owned it, so finding it again is like bumping into an old friend you haven't seen in years.

And some buried treasures are coming to light as well. To start with, we found another box of the deluxe limited edition hardcover of the GAME OF THRONES rpg fr

Subterranean Press has just announced that they've sent our Jack Vance tribute anthology, SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH, (which I co-edited with Gardner Dozois) to the printers:

http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/2009/05/19/just-sent-to-the-printer-jack-vance-china-mieville-and-more/

This is the illustrated edition, with gorgeous interior artwork by Tom Kidd. The lettered and numbered states are sold out, but copies of the trade remain available at the SubPress website.



It's going to be a real Jack

Much improved these last two days. I've even been writing well.

But damn, even a few days of being laid low puts me so far behind...

My life and career have developed a frightening momentum. I remember once, when I was out in Hollywood, someone described working on a weekly television series as being akin to madly laying rails as the locomotive roars full steam up the tracks just behind you. I'm not in Hollywood anymore, but life still feels like that some days. Lose a day here and a week the

Still fighting the crud here. Feeling a little better this morning, but still not a hundred per cent. I did manage to stagger across to my office. We'll see how long I last. If I take off too long, the mountain of stuff becomes overwhelming by the time I get back.

And now it appears I've passed on this cold/ flu / whatever to my assistant Ty, who has passed it on to his wife. A plague sweeping through New Mexico.

I hate feeling sick.

Hoping to be my old self by the weekend... there's so much

spent most of the last two days in bed, coughing and sleeping

WILD CARDS is headed back to its roots.

The early volumes in our long-running shared-world anthology series largely centered around Manhattan, especially the parts of the Bowery and Lower East Side that became known as Jokertown. More recent entries, however, have been wider in scope, often international. But I've signed the contracts for another brand new, all-original Wild Cards mosaic novel, and I'm pleased to announce that with FORT FREAK the series is coming home again.

Manhattan’s 5th prec

Literally. I have a cough that won't stop, and a chest that's so congested it feels like it's made of concrete. And the phlegm...

And the only time I've left the house and computer for weeks was to see that wretched Trek film, so I am blaming Kirk, Spock, and J.J. Abrams.

If I die of swine flu, you know who to hold responsible,