" I've said more than once that it was probably a good thing the character was already dead before I met Sibel, or I might never have had the heart to kill her. ((Show Shae, thanks to David and Dan and Sibel, was actually a much different and more interesting character than Book Shae, I blush to admit))"

George R.R. Martin is going to be in Staten Island during the first week of August, and while there, will meet with his editors and publishers!