George R.R. Martin - Tulen ja jään laulu: Kirjauutisia

On the show catching up to him:
“The show has certainly caught up with me but I’m writing the books as fast as I can and I can’t worry about that.”

He pays heartfelt tribute to his UK and US editors, Jane Johnson of HarperCollins and Anne Lesley Groell of Bantam Spectra. "They're both great. They read the books. They give me their commentary. I work with them on it. I think editors are still important."

"If we go seven or eight seasons and then the show is still big enough that we can get the $200m to finance a huge epic movie to end it… sure!" he enthuses about the prospect of a big-screen version.

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival, he also revealed fans had guessed the secret ending to the series, after painstakingly piecing together clues planted in the novels so far.

Martin, who still has two books left to write in the series, admitted he had stopped reading the popular network of fans message boards, where eagle-eyed readers had correctly speculated about what was to come.

He added he had "wrestled" the idea of changing his planned ending to ensure he surprised readers, but had decided against it after working hard to plant "subtle and obscure" clues throughout the books.

He told an audience he had planned the broad storyline, and deaths of major characters, until the end of the series.

But, he said, there would be other minor characters whose fate was undecided.

"I don't necessarily know their future and whether they will live or die," he said. "I'll make that up as I go along."

tarunenOlen lukenut noita englanninkielisiä fanisivuja, ja olen luultavasti tietoinen ainakin siitä yhdestä suuresta salaisuudesta, jonka osa faneista on arvannut. Sivuilla on myös aika löysää arvailua ja lähinnä fanifiktiolta vaikuttavia teorioita, mutta joitakin ketjuja on ihan ilo lukea. Parhaimmillaan heitetään GRRM-hengessä nokkelaa herjaakin. Vaikka tietenkin omia teorioitaan puolustavat saattavat erimielisinä ryhtyä loanheittoon niin kuin monella muullakin foorumilla.

I expect that there will be a series of graphic novels for Clash of Kings, and I’m doing what I can to help build and support the creative team that’s taking it over. It was a great process, and a fun project.

Toinen lohikäärme on lähtenyt painosta. Se saapuu kirjakauppoihin niin pian kuin siivet (tai kuljetusliikkeen autot) vain kantavat.

Ja ennakkoon tilatut ja maksetut yksilöt singahtavat matkaan huomenna.

TinttiKävin juuri suomalaisesta varaamassa kirjan. Pääkaupunkiseudulla kuulemma kirjaa jo saa, näin myyjä sanoi. Ehkä huomenna tai maanantaina tulee tekstari <3

Sushukka
Tekstari tuli juuri, Kouvolassa!

"My publishers want the [next] book, so do HBO, so do my readers. And nobody wants it more than I do. But, when I weigh that pressure, I have to be aware that the books are what I'll finally be judged on. If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."

Well, there's at least one deleted chapter from book five – which left me in the wrong place – which I have been tempted to publish as a sort of short story.

"I kind of read the 'Game of Thrones' books as the seasons [went on]," Turner says, "But now that the storyline and scripts are kind of going away from the books I decided I'm just going to read the scripts so I don't get confused and read the books later."

"'Game of Thrones' is so unpredictable and it was a big surprise what is happening to her this season," Turner says. "I am so excited because it gives me the opportunity to work with new people and it goes in a completely different direction. I think the fans will really like where her storyline is going this season."

“The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.”

Elsewise, I am home for the rest of the year... and well into next year, I hope. Most of that time I plan to spend in Westeros.

The World of Ice and Fire, a comprehensive history of Martin's world, will be released on Oct. 26 in New York. It's billed as a "lavishly illustrated" volume spanning from the Dawn Age to the fall of the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen.