Well, the Wuhan Virus may actually bring one unexpected benefit. The Fat Man posted today:
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is doubling down on the next book in the Song Of Fire Ice And Fire saga, Winds Of Winter, as he self-quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic.Irony.
In a blog post, Martin updates readers and fans on the state of his various projects. Meow Wolf is closed. So is Martin’s movie theater, the Jean Cocteau Cinema. His non-profit, the Stagecoach Foundation, is also on hiatus for the time being.
His bookstore, Beastly Books, will remain open for now but all events there are cancelled. The mail order service for the bookstore will remain open because “reading is the best way to pass the empty hours.” Reading and, in Martin’s case, writing.
“For those of you who may be concerned for me personally,” he writes, “yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population, given my age and physical condition. But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions. I am off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going in to town or seeing anyone. Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day. Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms… but maybe not as grim as they may become here.”
3 comments:
As if eleven threads with that word in the title are not enough.
Eleven? Hell, I just counted THIRTY-ONE! Really, our world is saturated up, down and sideways with everything possible in relation to Corona. I figured a lot of people came to this blog to get away from the mundane, the ordinary, the boring, the depressing.
"Mornin' Honey; I think I'll get on the computer and go to Jambalaya to read the new threads about Corona" said nobody ever.
Hype, commercial hype!
Meanwhile there are 1000 other fantasy literary worlds without HBO marketing that don't rely on cheap smut to sell copies.
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