I can't give you an exact count… but I must have done at least fifty interviews over the past two months. Maybe as many as a hundred.
Radio interviews, TV interviews, magazine and newspaper interviews, private interviews, group interviews, public interviews… in France, in Switzerland, in Scotland, in London, in San Diego, and most recently in LA, on the Red Carpet for the Emmys.
On some of the foreign trips, I did entire days of interviews. They would park me in a hotel suite, usher in a journalist or a film crew, we'd talk for a half hour, then my hosts would escort that reporter out, and bring in a new one. Some of the journalists were very sharp. Some… ah… weren't. (A few made me wonder what the hell has happened to the standards of the profession that I once got my degrees in, back at Northwestern.)
Sitting around a hotel room talking doesn't sound so hard, but it can be grueling. Especially when they all ask the same damn questions.
(Tyrion is my favorite character. Okay? OKAY? Can we PLEASE put that one to rest?? I love all my viewpoint characters, Arya and Sansa and Bran, Jon Snow and Brienne, Arianne and Cersei and Jaime, Theon, even Victarion and the Damphair, ALL of them, but I love Tyrion the bestest. Tyrion son of Tywin, the Imp, second son of Casterly Rock. How many bloody times do I need to say it?? I swear, from now on, whenever anybody asks me, "who is you favorite character," I am going to start naming characters from other people's books. Cugel the Clever. Flashman. Gatsby. Hotspur. Solomon Kane. A different one each time… )
But I digress.
Anyway… I did the interviews, so I might as well share them as they come up.
Did a whole bunch in Neuchatel at NIFFF, as I said. Journalists from Switzerland, France, Germany all came. The worst of those…. well, that one most of you have seen, I suspect, it's the one where I gave the guy the finger.
Here's a much better one, an in-depth piece that actually covers some ground about my life and writing that hasn't been covered a thousand times before. If that's of interest to you, you may enjoy it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/song-of-ice-and-fire-author-george-rr-martin-on-success-chess-and-the-wrath-of-superfans-9652448.html
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