{"id":2602,"date":"2011-04-30T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:58:56","slug":"in-the-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/04\/30\/in-the-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week.  So much to report, so little time.<\/p>\n<p>I am spending a lt of my time over at Bantam, working with my editor Anne Groell on copyediting and proofing A DANCE WITH DRAGONS to get all the ducks in a row for the July 12 pubdate.  A lot of work in a short time frame, but it&#8217;s going well.  Sill have the appendix to nail down, which becomes first priority when I return home May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Watching some of the NFL draft in spare moments, but I&#8217;ve been in such a crunch this year I did not do any of my usual prep, so I have no idea who most of these players are.  The Jets and Giants have picked some people.  Hope they&#8217;re good.  The Giants got a prince, I see.  Not the one who just got married.<\/p>\n<p>Visited the HBO Store yesterday.  Incredibly cool, and the people running it were terrific.  I signed all the copies of my book on hand, so if there are any New Yorkers reading this who would like an autographed copy, head over to HBO post haste.<\/p>\n<p>All four volumes of the series are now on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list.  I&#8217;ve got a lot to celebrate and I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and of course, there was the TIME 100 Gala, where Phipps and I dressed up like grown-ups and hung out with some amazing people.  More on that when we get home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week. So much to report, so little time. I am spending a lt of my time over at Bantam, working with my editor Anne Groell on copyediting and proofing A DANCE WITH DRAGONS to get all the ducks in a row for the July 12 pubdate. A lot of work in a short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}