Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:52:40 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: A Game of Thrones, GRRM signing Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 7/21/2011 6:41 PM >>>> > >Michael Walsh wrote: >> A signing in Burlington, MA has close >> to a Balticon attendance > >>From what I read, the actual signing >only lasted about 5-6 hours. >Pratchett still has him beat at 8 hours+. >I remember the line at the National >book event on the Smithsonian mall. > >But seriously, I'm happy for GRRM. >I'm not into huge books of political >machination, GRRM does The War of the Roses .... >but I'm happy to see an >author get his well-deserved fame. Now all he has to do is write them fast enough to stay ahead of the HBO = series! mjw