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.
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Problem with the graphic novels was the publisher(s). Dunk & Egg have led a vagabond life where publishers were concerned. Only fitting for Hedge Knights, I suppose, but they'd like a permanent home...
That was it though, my library stocked no more and I had no money.
I then, some years later discovered a book that seemed to lead on from something I had memory of from years ago. It happened to be storm of swords. So I sorted it all out and purchased the full series.
I am now totally immersed and I'm loving Tyrion. If nothing else, if you somehow fail to finish this epic, please don't kill the imp. He amuses me.
Of course, having invented all these stories, histories and myths and backgrounds and the like, the temptation is always to put it in. That's a temptation one needs to resist. Tolkien had the right idea, about this as about so much else: put such material in an appendix.
In some sense, WORLD OF ICE & FIRE is like a giant appendix. Lavishly and beautifully illustrated and sold separately, but still...