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This week our FANtastical Friday is all about A Game of Thrones aka GOT! This would make the best gift of the season! NO! Of the year! NOOOOOO! Of the century!!!! 

George R.R. Martin rocks!!!

FANtastical Friday Question...

Darynda: George, thank you so much for being here with us today! 

George: *crickets chirping in the distance* 

Darynda: How fantastic is it that HBO has not only adapted your series, but has done a fantastic job with it? Are you thrilled to bits with the results thus far? 

George: . . . 

Darynda: How do you like living in Santa Fe? 

George: . . . 

Darynda: George, seriously, you have to let me get a word in here. Gah! 

JUST KIDDING! I did not email GRRM. Partly because he is very busy, but mostly because I don't have his email address. However, I can say that I have met him on several auspicious occasions and he is a very nice and gracious man. Even when I passed out from a sudden surge of fangirl adrenaline and they had to call an ambulance, he was very nice. He did, however, have his people "keep an eye on me" from that moment on. Not sure what that was about. 

Meet George Martin

 George Raymond Richard Martin, sometimes referred to as GRRM is an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction prose, as well as a screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic series Game of Thrones. Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, while also scripting one of each season's 10 episodes. Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world".

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Win this awesome autographed copy of

A Game of Thrones 

(A Song of Ice and Fire #1)

by George R.R. Martin!

 Perfect as a holiday gift!

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A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

A Song of Ice and Fire

Games of Thrones ~HBO series

During completion of A Dance With Dragons and other projects, George R. R. Martin was also heavily involved in the production of a television series adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Firebooks named after the first book, A Game of Thrones. Martin's involvement includes the selection of a production team and participation in scriptwriting; the opening credits list him as a co-executive producer of the series.

HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2007 . The series was renewed shortly after the first episode aired. The first season was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, ultimately winning two, one for its opening title credits and for Peter Dinklage as Best Supporting Actor. The second season of ten episodes, based on the second Ice and Fire novel A Clash of Kings, was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, including another Supporting Actor nomination for Dinklage. It went on to win six of those Emmys in the Technical Arts categories, which were awarded the week before the regular televised 2012 awards show. The first season of 10 episodes was also nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award, fantasy and science fiction's oldest award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society each year at the annual worldcon; the show went on to win the 2012 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, in Chicago, IL; Martin took home one of the three Hugo Award trophies given in that collaborative category.  The second season episode, "Blackwater," written by George R.R. Martin, was nominated the following year for the 2013 Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category; that episode went on to win the Hugo Award at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, in San Antonio, Texas.

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