An Unreliable World: History and Timekeeping in Westeros

Last year I contributed to the book Beyond the Wall, a collection of commentaries and essays on A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation. My essay is this week's 'Free Essay' over at Smart Pop Books, so it can be perused for free right now.

The essay discusses the often-dubious measures of time given in the series and how the ancient backstory of the books is fluid and unreliable as a result.

BEYOND THE WALL now on sale

Beyond the Wall, the Song of Ice and Fire essay anthology I have contributed to, is now on sale in some bookshops (though the official release date is not until next week, I believe). Forbidden Planet in London had several copies on sale yesterday, so I imagine that other copies will be out there in the wild.

Something I've been working on...

I'm now officially allowed to talk about this. For the last couple of weeks I've been working on an essay for a forthcoming book about A Song of Ice and Fire. I turned in the first draft a few days ago and anticipate quite a lot of work to bring it up to standard, but I'm excited as this will be my first work published in book format (not to mention my first paid writing job ever).


The book is called Beyond the Wall and is due out in June 2012 from BenBella, as part of their Smart Pop line. The editor is novelist and former TSR fiction editor James Lowder. A full list of contributors should be available soon.