A Feast for Crows is done and at the publisher for a fall release

[LeftyMom]

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Salviati]

1. This is good news!

how did you come by it, if I may ask?

[LeftyMom]

2. link below

http://p080.ezboard.com/fasoiaffrm5.showMessage?topicID=25698.topic

[Salviati]

3. Thanks, and now there is updated info on his official site as well!

http://www.georgerrmartin.com

(from "About A Feast for Crows (05/29/2005)")
...
And that's why my publishers and I, after much discussion and weighing of alternatives, have decided to split the narrative into two books (printing in microtype on onion skin paper and giving each reader a magnifying glass was not considered feasible, and I was reluctant to make the sort of deep cuts that would have been necessary to get the book down to a more publishable length, which I felt would have compromised the story).

The first plan was simply to lop the text in half. In that scenario, I would finish the last few chapters in as short a length (and time) as possible. That would have produced a story of maybe 1650 to 1700 pages in manuscript, which we would simply have broken into two chunks of roughly equal length and published as A FEAST FOR CROWS, Part One and A FEAST FOR CROWS, Part Two.

We decided not to do that. It was my feeling -- and I pushed hard for this, so if you don't like the solution, blame me, not my publishers -- that we were better off telling all the story for half the characters, rather than half the story for all the characters. Cutting the novel in half would have produced two half-novels; our approach will produce two novels taking place simultaneously, but set hundreds or even thousands of miles apart, and involving different casts of characters (with some overlap).

The division has been done, and it think it works quite well. The upshot is, A FEAST FOR CROWS is now moving into production. It is still a long book, but not too long; about the same size as A GAME OF THRONES. The focus in FEAST will be on Westeros, King's Landing, the riverlands, Dorne, and the Iron Islands. More than that I won't say.
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[semillama]

4. This is one of the only series I will buy in hardcover

because I can't wait.

[davidinalameda]

5. way cool!

:woohoo: back at ya mom!

[TroubleMan]

6. It's about damn time!!!

I've forgotten most of the other books it's been so long. I'll have to reread the last one so I can remember who was who.

[deadparrot]

7. Awesome news!

:)

[Beetwasher]

8. Well, Yeah, Sort Of!!!

He had to split it into two books! Very psyched about it though!!!!

It's going to be "A Feast For Crows" and "A Dance w/ Dragons".

[LeftyMom]

9. Release date info

Right now the release is planned for November exact date not yet known. The date should be the same or close to it for the US and UK publications.

:woohoo:

[NewJeffCT]

10. thank goodness

And, Martin is a fellow liberal, too.

I will now have to re-read the first 3 books, as I'm sure I've forgotten most of the minor characters and small events in the books.

[davidinalameda]

11. you can preorder it on Barnes and Noble.com

I'm going to put my order in soon

[semillama]

12. Then maybe we can all stop talking about Harry Potter

once this comes out.

My girlfriend gets comically upset at the fact that grown adults obsess over a children's book.

[LeftyMom]

13. An update on release dates

It comes out Oct 17th in the UK, Nov something (I've seen the 8th elsewhere, Amazon says the first) in the US.