OH MY GOD IT'S MARIELLA FROSTRUP!!!

...I love her.

Just so you know? You succeeded in creating believable grey characters! Your writing blew my mind open to how to write characters. Best I know!

Awesome interview, and I for one am VERY GLAD that you didn't fight in Vietnam. :)

The ultra-hardcore "finish it" folks blew my mind. Like most fans, I was disappointed by the delays, but it didn't diminish my opinion of the books or their author.

I loved it especially when Neil Gaiman weighed in briefly, in part because of how inextricably tied to it all he has become.

Make the books in your own way on your own time. That's the only way I expect to be real satisfied as a fan of the work.

Thanks for posting this. I was hoping this interview would be available to the American audience at some point.

That was really cool seeing two of my favrotie authors chat. It reminded me of Archon in 2001 when GRRM interviewed Robert Jordan. Good stuff!

That was a great interview. George, you seem like a really awesome guy. I'm beyond excited to read the next book - I've converted 5 or 6 friends who are fiendishly tearing through the back volumes :)

Something that I've always been curious about which I'm sure hasn't come up in interviews is the complexity of Westeros' calendar! The more I read (and re-read) and watch the show, the more I'm curious how a planet can have long/short winters/summer. Can only Maesters understand it?

I'd like to see the two of you on a panel with perhaps Daniel Abraham and Pat Rothfuss and Scott Lynch.

I soooo very much enjoyed watching this interview today. I loved hearing you talk about your Turtles. I swear if there was an award for Cutest Genius I would be nominating you!!!

Hope you enjoy Episode 4. I can't wait to see John Bradley West.. and the rest of the boys.. and Hordor, and , and , and...

Big Love ox

This was the best interview of you that I've yet seen and the most useful to me personally as a writer.

loved these!

watching Game of Thrones come to life on HBO is more emotional than i ever thought it would be. i'm so happy! :) can't wait for "Dances With Dragons"!

I, too, am often asked "Can you summarize the series, you know, give [the uninitiated] some idea of what it's all about so [they'll] understand."

'Sir Walter Scott's /Ivanhoe/, with gritty sex and violence' is about the best I've come up with to date. Leaves some mainstream readers blinking and wondering... but it *really* grabs hold of the would-be literati. =)

Great interview! :)

Joe: "I think it's fair to say you present quite a grim, seedy, cynical version of a fantasy world."

GRRM: "I thought that was you!!"

That made me lol so hard, you took the words right out of my mouth, hahaha! I'm pretty sure Joe's corpse count in The First Law trilogy far outweighs anything I've ever read. It was pretty cool seeing two really good authors chatting it up. :D