{"id":7912,"date":"2022-11-16T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:04:24","slug":"home-again-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2022\/11\/16\/home-again-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am back in the Land of Enchantment, as of the day before yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been away for three weeks or thereabouts, in New York City, New Jersey, and finally Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t lug a laptop around with me when I travel; on the road, I am only reachable by phone or text.\u00a0\u00a0 Which helps keep me sane, but it did mean that I had 2,000 emails waiting for me when I got home.\u00a0\u00a0 I am still digging out.<\/p>\n<p>The trip&#8230; three weeks, I said, but at times it felt more like three months.\u00a0\u00a0 My latest book, the illustrated Targaryen history RISE OF THE DRAGON, was released on October 25, so I had a lot of promotion to do.\u00a0\u00a0 My sisters and their children and grandchildren and spouses still live in New Jersey, so I needed to see them too.\u00a0\u00a0 The last time I got back east was in 2019, before the pandemic started.\u00a0\u00a0 I had meetings with my publishers and agents and editors, and some meals with old friends.<\/p>\n<p>I am not one for writing long trip reports&#8230; and this one would need to be VERY long.\u00a0\u00a0 It was that kind of trip.\u00a0 Joy and sadness, tragedy, love, a lot of work.\u00a0\u00a0 Highs and lows, and so much to do, it really took it out of me.\u00a0\u00a0 I will tell you about much of that, but not right now, and not all at once.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I will make a series of small blog posts, rather than doing one enormous one.\u00a0\u00a0 The things that happened&#8230; well, it would not feel right to mush them all together.<\/p>\n<p>Let me start with the original reason for the trip: the release of RISE OF THE DRAGON.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a traditional book tour, which could have taken months I did not have, we launched RISE with a virtual event at the Random House offices in New York City.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was thrilled to have David Anthony Durham interviewing me.\u00a0\u00a0 David is one of my Wild Cards writers, and much much more.\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s written epic fantasy, historical fiction, westerns, YA books, and he has beenpart of the\u00a0 team on every one of prequels we have been developing for HBO for the last year and a half.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good guy, terrific writer.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed our talk, no problem &#8212; it is online now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Conversation with George R R  Martin | A Celebration of the Targaryen Dynasty\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXZE_KQnat4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to report that RISE OF THE DRAGON is doing very very well, hitting numerous bestseller lists here and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>(I will post more about my events in New York and New Jersey and Chicago in the days to come, once I&#8217;ve caught up on some of those damned emails).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back in the Land of Enchantment, as of the day before yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been away for three weeks or thereabouts, in New York City, New Jersey, and finally Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t lug a laptop around with me when I travel; on the road, I am only reachable by phone or text.\u00a0\u00a0 Which helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[62,71,11,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}