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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3349398" data-attributes="member: 20741">I enjoyed AFFC, but the problem is that my fave characters (Arya excepted) did not appear in AFFC.In that I was not alone; most GRRM fans are fans of Jon, Dany, Tyrion and even Bran. So it made a big difference in the novel.As for his focus...GRRM spends a lot of time at cons and doing other things. I would get a little snippy about it - except if you read his biographical notes on his site (he put up some new ones 2 months ago) you begin to understand pretty quickly that GRRM's life has ALWAYS revolved around attending SF cons.In that regard, GRRM is the real deal; he is a genuine *fanboi*. His whole adult life he's been going to them. Moreover, it would seem every love interest in his life - he met at a SF con. He's been going to them for over 35 years and it is something he and Paris love doing together. A guy who goes to SF cons is very much WHO he is. So...I guess we can't begrudge a man that. And it's worth remembering that GRRM goes out of his way to be accessible to fans. In fact, I can't recall ANY major author (let alone a genre #1 best-selling author) who is as personally accessible as GRRM is. I think that needs to be taken into account too. Some of these guys you never see. Whereas GRRM organizes a pizza crawl online and tells you where he will be so you can come out with him for the night.Still - even with his con attendances in past years, he found a way to write.My guess is that when you really NEED the money those novels generate to pay the rent, it tends to focus your efforts more.I had thought we would get ADWD for a November 2007 release. While that is still possible - he'll have to get his ass in gear PDQ for that to happen.</blockquote>

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