Well, I made my appearance on Sheep Island a few hours ago, cleverly disguised as Tyrion the Imp for a reading and Q&A session at Bantam's virtual bookstore. Only this version of Tyrion could fly! Ah, if only the Tyrion in the books could fly, what mischief he will... ah... could... ah, never mind.
Anyway, it was great fun. My thanks to Ken and Dan and Betsy and all the other good folks at Bantam, Second Life, and Electric Sheep who made it possible and kept it running smoothly, and of course to all the fans and readers who donned their finest avatars and popped in for a listen. I hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. I hope you all bought a virtual copy of DREAMSONGS too, since that's what we were supposed to be promoting.
And a special thanks to David Benioff and Dan Weiss, who made a surprise guest star appearance to answer questions about the HBO production of A GAME OF THRONES. It was great to have them there, even if they didn't have time to fix their avatars up like the Clegane Brothers, as they wanted.
Even Second Lives must come to an end, however, so now I am back to my original life.
My next appearance will be similarly cutting edge. On Saturday, I will be meeting fans and signing books at Book Expo America in New York City, starting at 11am. I look forward to seeing some of you there, and defacing your books. Unfortunately, Parris has chained me to my desk, so I won't actually be able to leave Santa Fe... but I'll be there signing at the BEA all the same, thank you very much.
Anyway, it was great fun. My thanks to Ken and Dan and Betsy and all the other good folks at Bantam, Second Life, and Electric Sheep who made it possible and kept it running smoothly, and of course to all the fans and readers who donned their finest avatars and popped in for a listen. I hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. I hope you all bought a virtual copy of DREAMSONGS too, since that's what we were supposed to be promoting.
And a special thanks to David Benioff and Dan Weiss, who made a surprise guest star appearance to answer questions about the HBO production of A GAME OF THRONES. It was great to have them there, even if they didn't have time to fix their avatars up like the Clegane Brothers, as they wanted.
Even Second Lives must come to an end, however, so now I am back to my original life.
My next appearance will be similarly cutting edge. On Saturday, I will be meeting fans and signing books at Book Expo America in New York City, starting at 11am. I look forward to seeing some of you there, and defacing your books. Unfortunately, Parris has chained me to my desk, so I won't actually be able to leave Santa Fe... but I'll be there signing at the BEA all the same, thank you very much.
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I take it that the discussion of the HBO production means all is still going in a positive direction on that front? Ah, who am I kidding? Even if the TV series sucks, I'm still going to buy it on DVD. I just want it to get made.
I hope the desk chaining leads to much writing progress. Maybe I should try that....
BTW, can't wait for some more news and the actual series itself. Should be great.
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I have an mp3 file of the event that I ripped from the audio stream. Could I put it up on the web for people who didn't get to attend? I personally have a couple friends who really wanted to attend but couldn't figure out Second Life in time, and there must be hundreds of others reading your blog that it also didn't work out for. Who owns the rights to the reading?
Thanks again! (If anyone reading this wants the audio - size is only 26mb for the full hour - you can email me in the meantime at carnadine [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll send it over.)
George, if you've any say in it, it'd be great if they made the full Q&A available (the reading too, if possible).
I can't wait for the HBO production.
And I'm sad I missed this. Maybe next time =)
Sounds like you found Waldo.
Sweet, Sharaith! I will be emailing you shortly ;)
Is there a transcript out there?
And thanks for doing the reading in SL. :)
Do you know if anyone recorded it for pocasting?