{"id":2719,"date":"2011-03-03T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:46:35","slug":"dragon-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/03\/03\/dragon-time\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAGON TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[first posted at 9 am EST on my website]<\/p>\n<p> No.  Sorry.  Not done yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m close, though.  Watch this space.  When the book is done, you will read it here.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000095xs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x48014\" width=\"316\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>original cover 2006<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile&#8230; there is news.  Big news.  The end is in sight, at long long last, and we&#8217;re close enough so that my editors and publishers at Bantam Spectra have set an actual publication date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0002tfw1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x48013\" width=\"318\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>revised cover 2007<\/p>\n<p>A DANCE WITH DRAGONS will be in your favorite bookstore on  <\/p>\n<p>                        TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000eb76w\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/000eb76w\" width=\"313\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>new cover 2009<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know.  You&#8217;ve all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009.  None of those were ever hard dates, however.  Most of them&#8230; well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.  <\/p>\n<p>This date is different.   This date is real.   <\/p>\n<p>Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12.  I hope you like it.<\/p>\n<p>((For what it&#8217;s worth, the book&#8217;s a monster.  Think A STORM OF SWORDS)) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000ed35c\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x48012\" width=\"315\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>final cover? 2011<\/p>\n<p>The dragons are coming.  Prepare to dance.<\/p>\n<p>And hey&#8230; thanks for waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[first posted at 9 am EST on my website] No. Sorry. Not done yet. I&#8217;m close, though. Watch this space. When the book is done, you will read it here. original cover 2006 Meanwhile&#8230; there is news. Big news. The end is in sight, at long long last, and we&#8217;re close enough so that my [&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\/2719"}],"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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}