Continuing our discussion of the difficulties of governance, in this episode we examine the Starks’ efforts to mobilize the Northern home front: how Winterfell works as a planning agency for surviving the long winters, the difficulties that come when the Stark-in-Winterfell is a child and his advisors aren’t quite up for the task, and how the Hornwood Crisis reveals the hidden complexities of Northern feudal politics.
So join us for an exhaustive though never exhausting discussion.
In what is almost a direct sequel to my last appearance on the Notacast, this time around we’re talking about Catelyn I of ACOK. Once the coronation is over and the debris from the celebrations has been swept away, how do you actually govern? Whether in making war or peace, how do you balance the interests of two distinct sets of subjects as well as your own personal interests? Which way should Stark armies march, and which kings are safe to ally with?
So join for us a truly exhaustive though never exhausting discussion.
Hey folks, just wanted to let you know that the second paperback is now available on Amazon.com! With Volume II done and dusted, we’re optimistic that Volume I should be heading to print soon, so that you’ll be able to have the whole series on the shelf right next to your well-worn copies of A Song of Ice and Fire.
As before, I have an ask for all of you: if you’ve not had a chance to get your copy through the Kickstarter, please buy my book. And then, regardless of whether you’ve bought your book through the Kickstarter or through Amazon, please rate and review the book on Amazon and help spread the word about the book.
And for those of you who ordered a copy through the Kickstarter, you don’t need to buy a copy seperately (although if you want to get more copies for friends and family, I won’t say no), my editor and I will be gearing up to ship those out to you very soon.
After meticulously editing for months on end, I am very happy to announce that the paperback edition of Race for the Iron Throne Volume II is now available on Amazon! Technically speaking, this is Part 1 of Volume II, because the physical manuscript turned out to be so long – turns out when you write long essays about each chapter in a doorstop fantasy novel, it adds up – that it would have been prohibitively expensive to publish the whole thing in one go. However, now that we’ve gotten over the initial hurdle of editing, proofing, and submitting, Part 2 and Volume I will be coming out much more quickly.
So here’s my ask to you all: if you’ve not had a chance to get your copy through the Kickstarter, please buy my book. And then, regardless of whether you’ve bought your book through the Kickstarter or through Amazon, please rate and review the book on Amazon and help spread the word about the book.
And for those of you who ordered a copy through the Kickstarter, you don’t need to buy a copy seperately (although if you want to get more copies for friends and family, I won’t say no), my editor and I will be gearing up to ship those out to you very soon.
More news on the book front!
First, the updated version of Race for the Iron Throne Volume I is now up on Amazon, so if you have already have your copy of the e-book, make sure to update it either on your app or through Amazon’s website.
Second, we are in the process of finalizing the print manuscript for both Volume I and Volume II for submission to Amazon. According to my editor, “the plan right now is to submit the finalized manuscript for Vol. II by next Friday, and to do the same for Vol. I by the following Friday.” Once the manuscripts are approved by Amazon, we’ll get to work shipping them out to the Kickstarter backers, and sometime after that making them available to the general public.
I cannot wait to have these things in my (and your) hands!
Big news on the book front!
If you’re a Kickstarter backer you probably already heard this, but Race for the Iron Throne Volume I has been re-edited and updated, complete with a brand new cover. This also means that now that both Volume I and Volume II have been edited and updated as e-books, we can now begin the process of turning them into physical books.
The plan currently is to have the publishing process finished by the end of September, with a shipping date for the Kickstarter backers’ copies immediately thereafter. And hopefully soon after that, people who don’t like e-books but weren’t able to pick up a copy through the Kickstarter will be able buy physical copies of their own through the usual Amazon pages.
This is a huge step forward for Race for the Iron Throne. I’ve always wanted to publish a physical book about A Song of Ice and Fire and, thanks to your support, I finally have. So thanks to all my backers for making that dream come true!
Also, now that I have something to sell and sign, I have an extra reason to show up for the Con of Ice and Fire and Con of Thrones, since I missed them this year for the Reasons…
Apologies for my recent silence – I took a plane to California and my laptop didn’t make it and I’ve spent the last six days trapped in a Kafkaesque situation where FedEx’s delivery times slipping and inflexible IT systems meant that I flew from San Francisco to Santa Barbara and couldn’t re-route the package so had to resend it from SF to SB – but now that I have my laptop back I can once again communicate!
And the first thing that I have to communicate is that, after a long and arduous journey, Race for the Iron Throne: Volume 2 is done! Kickstarter backers should have already received their copies (let Marc know if you haven’t), but for anyone who’s looking for a belated holiday present or wasn’t able to contribute to the Kickstarter, the e-book will be submitted to Amazon tonight and should be available for purchase shortly.
EDIT: It’s now available on Amazon! So if you didn’t get a copy before, you can now. And either way, if you could leave a review, that would be greatly appreciated.
Hey folks! As you probably have already seen by now if you’re checking your email, Kickstarter backers just got sent two bonus essays – including the now-complete Politics of the North essay, which weighs in at a whopping 15,000 words. But that’s not all: I’m very happy to announce that my editor’s been making sterling progress on the Race for the Iron Throne Volume 2 e-book, and it should be ready to send out to backers by the end of next week.
If you weren’t able to participate in the Kickstarter, don’t worry, you’ll have a chance to check this stuff out in a bit – the Politics of the North essay will find it’s way to Tower of the Hand after an interval, and the Volume 2 e-book will be going up on Amazon.com as soon as we can get it up.
“war everywhere…each man against his neighbor, and winter coming…such folly, such black mad folly…”
Synopsis: Bran is risen. He is risen indeed.
They glimpsed the eagle twice more the day after, and heard the hunting horn behind them echoing against the mountains. Each time it seemed a little louder, a little closer.
Synopsis: a grizzled veteran and a rookie agent are on the run from enemy military forces and hit the end of the road. The rookie agent is ordered by his superior to defect to the enemy.
Race for the Iron Throne 