I am so excited to share with you today an interview with one of my favorite writers, George R.R. Martin. For those of you who don’t know him, Martin is an author perhaps best known for the best-selling “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, which was adapted last year by HBO for the show, Game of Thrones. He was one of Time’s 2011 Most Influential People in the World, and an all around cool dude who was kind enough to spend some time chatting with me a few weeks ago. There’s an amazing feeling you get when you finish reading a truly fantastic book – a mixture of satisfaction, happiness, envy, and a little sadness that you’ll never get to read it for the first time ever again. Books that leave you with that feeling are a relatively rare thing, and Martin is one of the few authors who continually delivers them. As someone who loves reading, I admire Martin greatly, and I hope you will like meeting him as much as I did: Name a favorite book you enjoy that’s from a genre most people wouldn’t associate you with. Well, I do like historical fiction which some people don’t realize. … Continue reading Interview with George R. R. Martin