Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:26:00 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
    "WSFA Official List" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 4/14/2011 7:35 AM >>>
>Excerpt:
>When does anticipation for a new book turn into something darker? For
>bestselling fantasy author George RR Martin, that point came when his
>fans =96 desperate for the next title in his hugely popular series A =
Song=
>
>of Ice and Fire =96 launched an unprecedented flood of online abuse,
>berating him for everything from going on book tours to watching
>football games, just in case the author, self-described as "60 years old =
=
>
>and fat", was to die before finishing his epic story.
>--- end excerpt ---
>
><http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/13/george-rr-martin-game-throne=
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>s>

Here's the entire New Yorker piece:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller?currentP=
age=all

http://tinyurl.com/44zyp7n

And the current issue - now on the stands - has a huge gatefold advt for =
the HBO series.

mjw