Mike S. Miller has announced that the lithographs of Robert and Rhaegar at the ruby ford are being sold for a limited time at $50 off the usual price. It’s a great time to purchase this authorized, limited edition item.
GRRM’s official site has an updated “From My Readers” section featuring some new fan art, and a new entry in “Not a Blog” noting some of GRRM’s travel and appearance plans in the coming months.
The So Spake Martin collection has been updated with a new piece of correspondence giving some new information regarding the appearance of weirwoods, and a belated report from the San Diego Comic-Con.
The So Spake Martin collection has been updated with a new audio interview with GRRM, thanks to Geeks On. The interview begins about half way into the program.
As some might recall, Testors recently cancelled all orders of its Ruby Ford miniatures by Tom Meier due to its recent merger. Today, Mike Butterworth at Testors has contacted us with a message to interested fans and collectors that should explain the cancellation and the future of the A Song of Ice and Fire product lines that Testors had planned:
A very preliminary program schedule for this year’s Worldcon has been published. It is, absolutely, subject to change.
Well, as the latest issue of Locus has announced this, it seems official. George R. R. Martin and Bantam have concluded a deal to publish a world book for A Song of Ice and Fire, which will provide a great amount of deal about the setting featured in A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows. It’ll be copiously illustrated by some of the best artists in the industry and by some of the fan favorites.
Oh, and George’ll have a couple of co-authors on this endeavor, by the name of Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson.
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More details—many, many more details, we expect, when we can get them to you.
During this year’s Worldcon in Los Angeles, one of the official convention events will be a human chess match organized by the Brotherhood without Banners. There are many slots still open for volunteers, and discussion under way concerning it. If you’re curious to learn more, check this thread on the A Song of Ice and Fire board.
Mike S. Miller, the artist on DB Pro’s The Hedge Knight graphic novel, has announced an auction. It includes what’s perhaps his finest cover from the mini-series, pages from the same series, a depiction of the Hound (the fully colored version having been published in The Art of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire), and much more of interest to general comic book collectors.
GRRM’s official site has an updated “News” section reminding fans of the forthcoming The Ice Dragon (UK) that will be on shelves in October. He has also updated his “From My Readers Section” with a couple of new pictures and comments.
Guardians of Order, publisher of the A Game of Thrones Roleplaying Game, have officially announced their closure on their front page. Our condolences and best wishes to Mark MacKinnon, the founder of the company, who has had a hard road to travel these last months.
Part of the closure of the company includes the closing down of its forum. For those specifically interested in continuing discussion of the A Game of Thrones RPG (d20 PDF: PDF), an active fan forum can be found here.
GRRM’s official site has an updated “News” section confirming the demise of Guardians of Order, which published the A Game of Thrones roleplaying game (PDF). George discusses the future of the RPG in the update.
GRRM’s official site has an updated “Not A Blog” entry concerning his recent visit to the San Diego Comic-Con.
The Onion has published a recent article describing Wikipedia’s recent celebration of America’s 750th year of independence. In the course of the article, it notes that Wikipedia has information concerning the original colonies that would make up the United States, among them “Narnia, the central ice deserts, and Westeros”.
The So Spake Martin collection has been updated with a number of new posts in the “Reports” section, following GRRM’s apeparances at the San Diego Comic-Con.