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We had the luck to interview George RR Martin about his writing and his love of Fantasy. Click the interviews on the top-right corner to watch video clips of his interview.

George R.R. Martin has so far produced 10 short-story collections, nine novels -- including his newest, A Feast for Crows. His epic, seven-book series, A Song of Ice and Fire -- has been lauded as "the American Tolkien," and fans still rave about Beauty and the Beast, a show he helped write and produce.

Although Martin registered some early success as a novelist, in 1985 he was lured to Hollywood to work for The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast, and toiled in the Hollywood trenches for a decade before he moved back to Santa Fe and returned to his first love, fiction.

Martin dropped by our offices during his five-city Canadian promotional tour, and shared a few of his thoughts about writing, fantasy, and Tiki Barber (the New York Giants running back.)

The next novel in A Song of Ice and Fire epic will tentatively be called A Dance with Dragons, and he hopes it will be completed in less than a year.


 

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