TGIF

A few happenings to tell people about this week.

Ty Franck, one half of pseudonym James S.A Corey (the other half is Daniel Abraham), and George R.R Martin's assistant, blogs about the experience of co-authoring their new SF book Leviathan Wakes

Entertainment Weekly have put up 10 shots from the upcoming HBO version of George R.R Martin's A Game of Thrones. These should make prospective viewers and fans of the book alike happy.

Over at The Little Red Reviewer November is graphic novel month, have a look at their take on Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall here

There are a few of the expected 2011 releases (no, not those 3) over at Fantasy Book Critic here

I've recently discovered and become addicted to Mark Reads Harry Potter on buzznet, have a look here. Be warned, it is addictive.

SilentMajority from GRRuMblers attended a Minnesota event at which the object of the blog spoke about his long awaited 5th book of A Song of Ice and Fire, his recounting of the experience is here

TGIF

I thought I'd try doing a weekly round up of things I found of interest around the place, so welcome to this my first Thank God It's Friday post.

Pat St Denis from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist has given author Peter V. Brett (The Warded Man and The Desert Spear) an opportunity to review Lev Grossman's debut novel The Magicians. You can see how Peter stacks up as a reviewer here

If anyone has read this blog for a while you'd be aware that I'm a fan of George RR Martin's epic A Song of Ice and Fire. George keeps a fairly active livejournal, which he rather interestingly refers to as his Not a Blog. George is in Ireland at the moment, if anyone is curious about exactly what a best selling author who is late on the long awaited fifth volume of his masterwork does while on vacation, take a peek at this

It's been a while since the author of The Gentleman Bastards series Scott Lynch stuck his head up, but he updated his livejournal early in October, have a look at what he had to say here

I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend a look at the livejournal of The Princess of the Kingdom of Poison and Flame, also known as author Seanan McGuire, you can jump in anywhere and get a laugh right here

It was fairly quiet week, so that's it for now. Keep an eye out next Friday when more fun and frivolity will be on it's way.