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A Fantasy Realm Too Vile for Hobbits – New York Times: “In the meantime, Mr. Martin has two more volumes planned in the series after ‘Dragons,’ with noble houses in new wars; strange, spotted children; immense climactic changes; incest; peril; portents; and magic.”
1. Mainstream media validation = late to the party.
2. What about these “strange, spotted children?” Has anyone verified that GRRM meant to say this?
News – George R.R. Martin’s Official Website: “he feast has finally been served, and the crows have taken flight… higher than anyone (including me) would ever have dared dream.
cover The American hardcover of A FEAST FOR CROWS was released on November 8, and immediately shot to the top of all the lists, making its debut at #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list for hardcover fiction. That shriek you heard coming out of the west a few days back was me in San Francisco, roaring with delight as I got the news from Bantam. The highest I had ever reached on the TIMES list previously was #12, for A STORM OF SWORDS.
A FEAST FOR CROWS also hit #1 on the WALL STREET JOURNAL and PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY bestseller lists, and #2 on the USA LIST (which combines fiction and non-fiction). Amazon, Border’s, and Barnes & Noble also had FEAST ranked as #1 in hardcover fiction.
cover Meanwhile the British edition, released by HarperCollins Voyager on October 17, broke in at #10 on the TIMES OF LONDON bestseller list for hardcover fiction, and edged up to #9 for its second week on sale.
Every writer dreams of making these lists, and to hit #1… to know your book is the bestselling novel in all of America… well, I still wake up pinching myself.
It is not something I could have achieved alone, however. Thanks are due to all the good folks at Bantam and HarperCollins for their faith in the series and their patience with the author, to the legions of booksellers who pushed the books on all those unsuspecting customers, and most of all to my readers. If there was ever a series that has grown through word of mouth, it is this one… so thanks to all of you who ever recommended A GAME OF THRONES to friends, kins, and coworkers. If the crows are flying high, it’s only because all of you helped them take wing. “
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The Citadel: Images – Maps: “y popular request we’ve added scans of some of the maps (namely, the most recent versions published for each area). Each link below opens in a new window with just the map for faster loading since we’ve opted for keeping them quite large. Currently, we have a scan of the map of King’s Landing from the US hardcover from A Clash of Kings. This map is Copyright � 2000-2005 James Sinclair, Random House and George R.R. Martin. We also have a scan of the Lands of the Summer Sea available in the UK hardcover of A Storm of Swords. This map is Copyright � 2000-2005 Richard Geiger, Voyager Books and George R.R. Martin. We present our own map, up-to-date through A Feast for Crows, of Westeros, which replaces the previous maps of the North, the South, and the Land beyond the Wall. This map is based upon the maps of James Sinclair, Richard Geiger, and Keith Curtis. Finally, we have a copy of a fan’s attempt at piecing together a world map from the maps we so far have seen published.
We have added a scale to some of these maps, based on the 100 league length of the Wall as stated several times in the books, to each of the maps (apart from the King’s Landing map) but we are not absolutely certain that the map of the Lands of the Summer Sea is to the same scale as the maps of the North and the South. GRRM has disavowed the accuracy of the maps in term of scale, but we take this to mean that the maps aren’t strictly accurate in terms of the positioning of specific locations rather than that the maps are completely out of scale. We stand by this until such time as internal evidence proves that it is wrong.”
The color map of Westeros is awesome.
grrm: Whew.Well, I’m back home again in Santa:
the New York and Ann Arbor signings each drew more than 600 people. Hot damn.
I was at the Ann Arbor reading. It was amazing. the line was so long I had to bail before getting my signed copy.
grrm: Aaaarrrgh!:
Finally got caught up on all the football games that Parris TIVO’d for me during my book tour. Yesterday I got to watch the Jets and Giants play live for the first time in six weeks.
Argh. You’d think with two teams, I’d at least have one kicker who could make a goddamned field goal. The Giants gave me three heart attacks, and the Jets added a fourth…
I take some solace from telling myself that, aside from the three missed field goals and all those false starts, the Giants played damn well against a tough Seahawks squad and are still in the thick of things.
As for my poor Jets, well, they should get a high draft choice, at least.
The New York football news has been pretty dismal this year. Maybe George will get tired of it and start writing …
A ‘Feast’ for Fans of George R.R. Martin:
The long-awaited fourth book in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series hit stores on Nov. 8 and sold 64,000 units in its debut week, as reported by Nielsen BookScan. A Feast for Crows arrives five years after Martin’s previous book, A Storm of Swords. Clearly, the long wait hasn’t dissuaded Martin’s fans.
You know, I spend a lot of time writing about Google and Amazon in this space. But there’s a reason for that. They continue to drive a feverish pitch of innovation in bookselling and publishing. Today, for example, I received a message inviting me to participate in a beta test by setting up a new type of preview link. Hover over this link or the following link to my forthcoming UNAUTHORIZED A FEAST FOR CROWS ANALYSIS (Dec. 15).
(Note: The link works 50% of the time so Amazon can measure its effectiveness. If you don’t see it the first time you come here, clear out your amazon_vf cookie and refresh.)
All Sorts of Weird Stuff: News – A Feast For Crows #1:
A Feast For Crows #1
A report from GRRM’s signing in Petaluma indicates that he has just gotten word that … will enter the November 27th New York Times’ Bestseller list at #1. Congratulations, George!
Well deserved.
La Biblioth�que de Ran Borune :: Voir le sujet – Unauthorized a Feast for Crows Analysis:
la couverture est trippante quand m�me. tr�s collante au titre.
French readers seem to like the cover … it is “trippante”, “collante”, and “sympa”.
Other comments are fairlly typical. Fans worry about the books when they see them in Amazon, but generally enjoy them when they buy them.
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