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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Bunsen Honeydew" data-source="post: 844114" data-attributes="member: 9338">Also worth checking is <a href="http://www.westeros.org/" target="_blank">http://www.westeros.org/</a> They've got a large collection of correspondence with GRRM - e-mails, message board posts, letters and convention meetups. Well worth reading - this guy doesn't give anything away, plays his cards very close to his chest.AFAIU, Martin was inspired by Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow & Thorn" proving that epic fantasy was viable (also well worth reading, as is his sci-fi epic "Otherland")Martin was previously best known as an editor (this is a GOOD thing) through his work with the Wild Cards series of 'super-hero' group novels (generally pretty good), his television work and a few novels and short stories (make sure that you read "Fevre Dream" - vampires and steamboats, woohoo!, and "The Onion Knight" a Westeros short set a long time before ASOIAF).He had his heart set on finishing AOIAF in six books. He then realised that his characters were all too young for him to do what he really wanted to do with them. He intended to leave a five-year gap, but he found that he was telling the fourth book in flashback.He has decided to go to seven books.I for one, am willing to trust him - he hasn't done me wrong yet.</blockquote>