Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


sumi - Mar 03, 2011 4:05:08 am PST #13995 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!

Woo hoo!

Meanwhile... there is news. Big news. The end is in sight, at long long last, and we're close enough so that my editors and publishers at Bantam Spectra have set an actual publication date.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS will be in your favorite bookstore on

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011

Yes, I know. You've all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them... well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.

This date is different. This date is real.

Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12. I hope you like it.

(For what it's worth, the book's a monster. Think A STORM OF SWORDS.)

The dragons are coming. Prepare to dance.


Jessica - Mar 03, 2011 4:06:11 am PST #13996 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'll believe it when I see it. (And then I'll wait for it to come out in paperback because I do not have the biceps to read a book that long in hardcover.)


sumi - Mar 03, 2011 4:18:13 am PST #13997 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!

Well, it should be available for Kindle and ibook.


hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 11:44:00 am PST #13998 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

so I'm reading Game of Thrones finally. Somehow, I feel like admitting to not having read it yet is like admitting to not having read Chaucer during an English Department coffee hour. And yet, a little bit not.


sumi - Mar 03, 2011 11:54:01 am PST #13999 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!

But are you enjoying it?


hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 11:55:43 am PST #14000 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

yes?

I feel like I've read the first few chapters before, though.

I'm a big fake. I know it.


Atropa - Mar 03, 2011 12:10:35 pm PST #14001 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Sox, if it makes you feel better, I also haven't read it, and don't really have plans to.


hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 12:12:37 pm PST #14002 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

Sadly, and I know I will regret posting this, I saw the really good trailer photos, with the two blond siblings, and thought "what's with the Flowers in the Attic kids on my fantasy fic?" and had to dive back in.


hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 2:23:41 pm PST #14003 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

On the flip side, and perhaps to redeem myself just a little, I just read the house copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to HKF, starting with the entirety of the cover. She asked what the six-digit number was in the top left corner. I believe it's the ISBN for a book published in 1976. She also commented that no one had dog eared any pages, in all the book's long yellowing life. I count that as a win.


DavidS - Mar 03, 2011 3:09:23 pm PST #14004 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Remainder Report: Lots of cool titles on the remainder table at Pegasus Books. They had Bolano's 2066 in TPB for only $9. Every time I read the beginning I started to get sucked in so I've been eager to get it.

They had the oversize and elaborate Taschen Circus set (1870-1955) for only $70. I think it originally went for closer to $300. It has huge foldout reproductions of vintage posters and tons of photos.

They also had the complete New Yorker Cartoons book, with the accompanying two CDs of every cartoon ever published in the New Yorker. Only $30, and worth it just for your iPad.