Both covers are lovely, and I'm sure we'll all get to enjoy them 'in the fullness of time' as it were.

In the meantime, I am rereading the rest of the series. Your stories are like the best dinners - even "leftovers" are terrific!

Thanks for your hard work.

"Sometime this fall!!" That would be around my birthday!!

**writes birthday wish list**
(funny, that didn't take long...)

I hope you stop in or around Iowa again for signings :)

Awwww, don't be stressing. It'll come out when it'll come out, and that's that =)

**Squee**

This is why I love England, we get the best covers!

Heh but other than that... huzzah for the book!

Sexy!

Do the dragons in ASoIaF have two legs or four?

I like both of them, even if the dragon in the green one has six limbs instead of four. The dragon is nicely heraldic, and the sword looks clean and sleek. I wonder if it's a real sword...

Also, don't stress it out, put your feet up, play with the kitten, whatever... It will all be the better for it.

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ooo...nice.
6 limbs?

Pretty...

I wish I lived in the UK. Theirs is prettier. But ours is nice, too.

LOVELY! Just in time for my birthday! :D

I know this is completely out of your control, so I'm just making a general observation here.

I miss the old covers :( I honestly didn't think the American one was legit when I first saw it, because it looked like something I could just sit down and whip out in Photoshop with the help of some dragon clip-art.

Again, I know, nothing to be done, yes, I know, I get that. I know the official line was to make the books more marketable cross-genres. But I wouldn't be shocked if there was some cost-cutting involved as well :/ A few hours of graphic design work has got to be cheaper than paying someone to do an oil painting. It just makes me sad.

Flame at will if you must, but this is my opinion and in no way meant to be an attack on George. I know these things are not his to decide.

ooh, I like the sword exiting the cover there! I like the series' english covers a lot, since they're not so typically fantasy (no heroes and despairing princesses etc on the cover)

And well, even if you don't finish the book by june, it'll be the better for it I suspect. I'd rather read another true masterpiece later than something that had to be rushed. But I know you're not into the rushing thing anyway, so I'm not worried ;)
Good luck and have fun writing!

I really enjoy these type of simplistic covers compared to ones with artwork attempting to convey a scene from the book! (though I also enjoyed the separate The Art of A Song of Ice and Fire as well)

seeing the cover. So do you get to pick the dominant color for the American covers? I've always loved their bold, no nonsense appearance that makes them stand out from the exhaustive and cliché fantasy scenes that dominate other fantasy covers. I can't wait to see it on shelves. Best of luck finishing it by June. But, if not, I'm content to wait out as long as it takes for you to polish it.

Those covers have inspired me to comment.

I'm in the middle of a reread of the whole series (lucky me, I haven't read book 4 yet!), and I'm right at the end of Game of Thrones. I was reading as I ate my lunch at a local restaurant yesterday, and one of the servers walked by my table. He looked back at me as he went past, and said, "Those are great!" I looked at my plate in confusion and said, "The sweet potato fries? Yeah, they're pretty awesome." To which he replied, "No, the books!"

Oh! I had the book open to the beginning of a Daenerys chapter, and he must have seen her name as he went by. He then proceeded to gush about the series and how he can hardly wait for book 5. Ah, fanboys, God love 'em.

Oh!!Both covers look so gorgeous!!!I really can't wait for the book,planning to re-read the previous ones soon-I just can't resist, the story is too captivating,so I keep re-reading them!!;)

Okay, I think I pooped myself a little. I CAN'T WAIT!

I foolishly started rereading book 1 last night (I had to buy ANOTHER copy of it, I keep giving them away to get people addicted to the GRRMy goodness)...oh, well, that just means I get to reread the whole series again come the fall. *squee* Want!

Honestly, I don't like it at all. I'm not really into these simplistic covers that have started with Feast and are the new paperback covers for the earlier books. I personally preferred the style of cover from Clash, Storm and what was the early cover for Feast.

Ah, it just ain't fair: the UK always gets the best covers!! :P
(Altho both are lovely.)

ooo, that's exciting - i guess i should start my reread soon!

I'm a longtime reader of your blog and this is my first post, but thanks so much for this series! I've never been this emotionally invested in a series of books, and hearing we might be getting the next installment sometime this year is good news indeed!

keep up the fantastic work :)

You know, I actually prefer the American cover! I like when books have simplistic covers, generally. And I like the green.

Simple pleasures for a simple man, I suppose.

Why do the Brits always get the better covers?

I live in Italy but I have always bought the British edition because it is AWESOME... (well, and it comes in bookstores earlier.)

Looking forward to it!

omg, I can't wait! "sometime this fall" is near my birthday... :)