Back home again. Returned from New York/ New Jersey yesterday.

It was a great trip, and an eventful one. More on all that shortly.

Oh, and for those still looking for autographed books… I hit the big B&N on Fifth Avenue and signed their stock of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS and other titles before leaving town. So that’s three locations in NYC that should have signed copies for the holidays. For as long as the supply lasts.

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… you can find autographed copies of my books at McNally Jackson Books on Prince Street in Manhattan. While the supply lasts. Tell ’em I sent you.

Then take your book to Lombardi’s for a kickass pie.

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Every year, come the holiday season, we get a lot of orders for the signed books offered on my website: http://www.georgerrmartin.com/books.html

The biggest rush is in early and mid-December, from readers planning to use the books as Christmas gifts. Often the buyers send extra money for priority mail, to make sure the books arrived by Christmas.

And that’s all great. Usually.

But this year, it’s not going to work. I am heading east the first couple of weeks of December, for reasons I cannot disclose yet, so I won’t be here to sign books or ship them. And when I return, mid-month, I’m going to be too busy digging out from under and doing my own holiday shopping to deal with orders.

Accordingly, we’ll be closing the “bookstore” on December 1. It will not reopen until the new year, after the holidays.

So if anyone out there is thinking of giving an autographed title of one of my old books as a Christmas present, please place your order in the next two weeks.

Thanks. (And happy reading and happy holidays to all).

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Just returned from a quick two-day trip to Dallas, where I flew in to address a national conference of managers from the Hastings bookstore chain. Great fun. The Hastings folks were wonderful hosts, and have done a terrific job of selling my books. A whole bunch of them told me that the midnight launches of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS back in July were a huge success.

No public appearances were on my calendar this trip, but since I don’t get to Texas very often these days, I did make sure I did some stock signings for my neglected Dallas readers. So if you’re looking for a copy defaced with my illegible scrawl, you will find some at the Barnes & Noble stores at Preston Royal, Lincoln Park,and Los Colinas… for as long as the supply lasts.

I did not, alas, make it to the B&N in Denton, where back in 1996 I had my traumatic encounter with Clifford, the Big Red Dog.

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