Het is nu een jaar geleden dat boek 5 is uitgekomen, dus even leuk om te kijken wat GRRM ondertussen heeft uitgespookt het afgelopen jaar.
Ongeveer een weekje geleden poste hij het volgende:
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This is for those who complain I never blog about my work. (I do, but not often. I prefer to announce when something is finally done, rather just endless reiterations of "I am working on X, I am working on Z," and I am never going to be one of those "I wrote three pages today" writers. Sorry, that's not how I roll).
One little monkey off my back:
THE LANDS OF ICE AND FIRE -- also known as "the map book" -- is now DONE AND DELIVERED, and scheduled for publication at year's end.
Monkeys remaining on my back? Lots o' them:
THE WINDS OF WINTER. Also known as "Son of Kong." Working on it. Lots to do.
THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. The concordance. Elio and Linda are my partners on this one, a compendium of the history and legends of the world of Westeros. A coffee table book, lots of gorgeous art from such talents as Ted Nasmith, Justin Sweet, and others. Making good progress on this one of late, lots of great historical stuff that I think my readers will enjoy. Never before revealed details of Aegon's Conquest, the War With the Faith, The Dance of the Dragons, the Paramours of Aegon the Unworthy, etc.
Poul Anderson story. An original short story for the Poul Anderson tribute anthology. Way, way overdue, but I am getting to it.
Dunk & Egg #4, An original novella of Dunk & Egg. Working on it. Hope to have it done by worldcon. It's scheduled to be published in
DANGEROUS WOMEN. A huge crossgenre anthology that Gardner Dozois and I are doing for Tor. Largely complete, except for Dunk & Egg. Well, we're waiting for three rewrites, but my own story will likely be the last one in, then we can move this one to "done and delivered."
LOWBALL. Volume twenty-two in the Wild Cards series. Working on that one with Melinda Snodgrass, my co-editor. Late, but almost done, a few last sections remain to be completed.
OLD MARS. Original anthology for Bantam, coedited with Gardner Dozois. Three-quarters done, a few stories still due in, three or four rewrites in progress. Not due quite yet.
OLD VENUS. The sequel to Old Mars. Well back in the pipeline, not due for a year.
ROGUES. Big crossgenre anthology I am doing with Gardner Dozois. One story already in, several in progress, but there's lots of time on this one too.
So there we are...
No more monkeys, please. Don't write to me with any tempting offers or cool new projects. I am practicing saying No.
No, no, no, no, no. Sorry, can't, pass, no way, count me out, too busy, no, no, no, thanks but no thanks, no thanks, no thanks.
I love my monkeys, but I have enough.
Een jaar geleden op 1 juni poste hij een vergelijkbare post:
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Here's the stuff I am dealing with right now:
-- reviewing pitch proposals and putting together the overplot for the new Wild Cards mosaic novel, LOWBALL,
-- writing the first draft of my script for episode nine of season two of the HBO series GAME OF THRONES, "Blackwater," and damn, but this one is a bitch of an adaptation, the original author made the damn battle way too big and too expensive,
-- working on a Nicholas van Rijn story for the Poul Anderson tribute anthology Gardner Dozois and Greg Bear are editing (an especially noisy monkey, since the deadline was today and the story is a long way from being done),
-- getting back into THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE, the long-promised concordance I am doing with Elio and Linda, which is almost three years late at this point, and needs to be finished and delivered by year's end,
-- roughing out the next Dunk and Egg novella, the next story in the queue after I finished the "Blackwater" script and the Poul Anderson story,
-- planning for a long summer of travel: the visit to Poland and Slovenia, the book tour, San Diego comicon, worldcon in Reno, Bubonicon, and maybe another trip overseas in the fall for the HBO show, depending,
-- working on a complete redesign of my website, much needed and long potsponed,
-- supervising and reviewing and approving materials for the games, the cards, the video games, the comic books, the replica swords, the miniatures, etc, etc.
I am exhausted just typing about it.
And behind all that, of course, lurks Son of Kong: the WINDS OF WINTER.
Als je deze posts naast elkaar legt kun je concluderen dat hij van de 'monkeys on his back' van een jaar geleden de volgende drie dingen heeft klaargespeeld:
- scripts geschreven voor de show
- z'n zomerreisjes gepland
- toestemming gegeven voor (slecht ontvangen) games, replica's en blablabla
- The Lands of Ice and Fire is af, een boek/collectie posters met meer gedetailleerde kaarten van Westeros.
Vervolgens heeft hij weer vrolijk 3 of 4 extra boeken bijgekregen die hij moet 'editen.' Het meest hilarische is dat korte verhaal wat hij moet schrijven voor de Poul Anderson-tribute anthology, de deadline was 1 juni 2011 en op 23 juni 2012 vertelt hij vrolijk dat hij het nog niet af heeft. Dit alles geeft mij niet erg veel vertrouwen dat we de komende jaren snel een nieuw boek zullen zien.