{"id":4082,"date":"2007-07-17T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2017-10-03T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T18:57:14","slug":"busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2007\/07\/17\/busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been juggling lots of balls this past week, but making good progress on a number of fronts.<\/p>\n<p>All of the art is finally in for Subterranean Press&#8217;s limited edition of FEVRE DREAM, and we&#8217;ve been going over the page proofs and placing the illustrations.   Justin Sweet has done some truly spectacular work for this one &#8212; a great moody cover, three stunning full color plates, and a bunch of beautiful black and white interiors.  If you like illustrated books, this will be one you&#8217;ll want to have, even if you&#8217;ve read FEVRE DREAM before.<\/p>\n<p>Also been doing a lot of WILD CARDS work.  The first drafts of the stories for BUSTED FLUSH, the second of the new volumes, have been pouring in, and I&#8217;ve been reading them all and sending out notes to the writers for their rewrites.  With a project like WILD CARDS, the first draft is never the final one.  There&#8217;s always a lot of revision required so the tales will fit together.  We&#8217;re well on the way, however, and I think the book will be a strong one when it&#8217;s done.  <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve been working on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS too.  Just finished revising the prologue a few hours ago.  As I mentioned last post, after reading it at the Indianapolis convention, there were aspects of it that I was not happy with.  The new version is a page shorter and much stronger, I think, with a better flow and crisper transitions.  I also punched up one element that somehow had gotten lost before&#8230; but it was an important element, I believe, so I&#8217;m pleased that I was able to strengthen it.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Parris&#8217;s birthday, and we&#8217;re off to the Bull Ring for some of Santa Fe&#8217;s best steaks.  Phipps will find a lobster too, I&#8217;m sure.  She&#8217;s going to be turning 29!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been juggling lots of balls this past week, but making good progress on a number of fronts. All of the art is finally in for Subterranean Press&#8217;s limited edition of FEVRE DREAM, and we&#8217;ve been going over the page proofs and placing the illustrations. Justin Sweet has done some truly spectacular work for this [&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\/4082"}],"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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}