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HBO buys A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE

wfz-admin — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:02:49 +0000

Variety.com – HBO turns ‘Fire’ into fantasy series

HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire & Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

“Fire” is the first TV project for Benioff (“Troy”) and Weiss (“Halo”) and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Benioff and Weiss will write every episode of each season together save one, which the author (a former TV writer) will script.

The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season’s worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won’t complete the seven-book cycle until 2011.

The author will co-exec produce the series along with Management 360’s Guymon Casady and Created By’s Vince Gerardis.

Martin’s series has drawn comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien, because both are period epics set in imagined lands. But Martin has eschewed Tolkien’s good-vs.-evil theme in favor of flawed characters from seven noble families.

The book has a decidedly adult bent, with sex and violence comparable to series like “Rome” and “Deadwood.”

“They tried for 50 years to make ‘Lord of the Rings’ as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three,” Martin said. “My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you’d have to choose one or two characters.”

Aside from writing the most recent draft of “Halo,” Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel “Pattern Recognition” for WB and director Peter Weir.

Benioff and Weiss were repped by CAA and Management 360.

Triple-stupendous news.

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Subterranean Press edition of A FEAST FOR CROWS

wfz-admin — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:48:01 +0000

Martin, A Feast for Crows (preorder): Subterranean Press

A Feast for Crows
By George R. R. Martin
(not yet published–preorder)

Illustrated by Tom Canty

Limited: $260
Lettered: $395

Buy a matching numbered set of A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows: $520

Later this year, we will release the limited edition of A Feast for Crows, the fourth volume of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. As with Storm, we will be breaking Feast into two volumes, to make it easier to handle and to read.

Tom Canty has nearly completed the illustrations, which will include:

roughly 70 black and white interior illustrations, including chapter heads and tails, full page illustrations, and black and white vignettes

different dust jackets for each of the two volumes in the set.

time and artist intent permitting, the endsheets for these volumes will consist of an original map(s)

three full-color interior illustrations will appear in the limited edition, with an extra full-color piece exclusive to the lettered

the slipcases will feature stamped artwork, one color on the limited edition, two colors for the lettered edition

the lettered edition will also feature an original remarque, or small illustration, by Tom Canty on the signature page

GRRM, AFFC, George R. R. Martin

Dragon by John Schwarz

wfz-admin — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:59:36 +0000

River Gallery – John Schwarz

This is in the lobby of the Ann Arbor District Library and the picture doesn’t do it justice. It is amazingly cool.

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grrm: Home Alone

wfz-admin — Mon, 15 May 2006 14:52:56 +0000

grrm: Home Alone

Oh, and I suppose you want to know how the DANCE is coming? Work continues. I finished the revisions on the Jon Snow chapters that I was talking about last month, and moved on to Tyrion for a while, but just now I am working on a new viewpoint character, and a chapter set in steamy harbor of Old Volantis. Where I shall be returning, first thing tomorrow.

Westeros – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

wfz-admin — Sat, 06 May 2006 14:37:23 +0000

Westeros – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Westeros
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GRRM news stories

wfz-admin — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:01:11 +0000

GRRM interview in AFTERBURN

wfz-admin — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:56:47 +0000

GRRM interview in AFTERBURN

A couple of good news items:

expect as many as 12 Dunk & Egg novellas (!!)

and

Afterburn SF: Mine too! I have to ask this. Without giving anything away, can we expect him to meet up with Daenerys at some point?
George R. R. Martin: Yeah, I think you could probably count on that.

Cover detail of Subterranean’s A STORM OF SWORDS

wfz-admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:38:02 +0000

Cover detail

Limited edition from Subterranean Press.

January 2006 Report

wfz-admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:29:29 +0000

A solid month with sales patterns continuing much the same. The biggest earner continued to be the US print version of UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER BOOK 7 NEWS, with substantial contributions from e-book and UK sales.

THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND went live on Google Book Search. Impressions were close to what I had projected using the Google Adwords Traffic Estimator, but clickthroughs were disappointingly low. The reason seems to be that GBS is serving up only weakly relevant ads on detail pages. A message to GBS support seemed to produce a slight improvement in algorithm performance.

The HYPOCHONDRIAC’S GUIDE series went live on Amazon. Sales were surprisingly strong considering that we are in “stealth” marketing mode.

The pub date for UNAUTHORIZED A FEAST FOR CROWS ANALYSIS has slipped to March 30.

Successfully migrated the website from Blogger at wfzimmerman.com to WordPress at nimblebooks.com.

Plans for February:

Complete UNAUTHORIZED A FEAST FOR CROWS ANALYSIS.
Complete two more HYPOCHONDRIAC’S GUIDES.
Update Amazon.com metadata for all titles.

A Feast for Crows most recent 90 days sales

wfzimmerman — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:58:00 +0000