The April Fools’ Joke That Almost Was

The faithful readers of George R. R. Martin’s Not A Blog may have noticed his April Fool’s joke post yesterday about bringing on a fellow writer to help him co-author Dance and the rest of the series. While the post was humorous and believable enough, it was fairly light-hearted. What George really wanted to do was even more ambitious. He commented on today’s blog post, where he came clean about the joke, mentioning his original plan.

Actually, everyone got off easy.

I was trying to convince Benioff and Weiss to announce an entire fake cast for HBO’s GAME OF THRONES pilot, but David and Dan are much nicer guys than I am.

But then, they’re too young to have been warped by Froggy the Gremlin at a formative age, like me.

Winter Is Coming: Now that is just mean, George. He had me going for about a minute or two with yesterday’s post. However, if he had been able to follow through with his original plan I probably would have bought it hook, line and sinker.

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