George R. R. Martin

George R.R. Martin’s 12 Westerosi Days of Christmas

by Ani Bundel

With the holidays rapidly approaching and more powerful authors causing an enormous stir with their Christmas Countdowns, George R.R. Martin’s twitter feed, GRRMSpeaking, has been having a little fun with the 12 Days of Christmas countdown of their own. Of course, they didn’t take into account fans and their ability read too much into minor clues, so what started as a cute Christmas countdown, suddenly became ” ZOMG A Countdown to The Winds of Winter Release!” Yeah, that’s not something his publishers would keep under wraps like that. If Winds of Winter were hitting the shelves four days before Christmas, we’d have known that a little bit before Thanksgiving.

(If you’re wondering then why his Christmas countdown ends 0n December 21st instead of running all the way up to Christmas Day properly, it’s the same reason J.K. Rowling’s ends on the 23rd–no one is online on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. It’s one of the deadest times of the year, trafficwise.) Poor GRRM had to take to his LiveJournal and tell everyone to calm down….

Or, in the words of Martin himself:

I am NOT on Twitter.  I am NOT on Facebook.  The only place I post myself, in my own words, is here on LiveJournal.

I do have an official Twitter account, and an official Facebook account.  I established these in self-defense, because there were fake accounts out there, where people pretending to be me were making various spurious pronouncements… pronouncements that would then get picked up all over the internet and repeated as if they were gospel.

…the folks at Random House wanted to do a special promotion on Twitter, a “Twelve Days of Christmas” with a Westerosi twist.  Did they have the green light?  It sounded fun, and funny, so I said sure, and thought no more of it.  It was just a little Christmas celebration.

But then, somehow, from somewhere, the rumor arose that the “12 Days” were actually a countdown… not to Xmas, but to the publication of THE WINDS OF WINTER, or the announcement of its completion and/ or pub date.

Sorry.  Not true.

So now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s check out Martin’s 12 Days of Westerosi Christmas so far. Yesterday was Day 6. The new tweets drop around 2pm EST.

I’ve never been warned of “Beware Tullys bearing gifts,” but….

Right, that’s what Theon needs. Batteries.

This one scares me.

Ewwww.

Always better to hang out near the stocking anyway…

I can already hear Lady Olenna grumbling about how insipid it is…

Spoiler Alert!

Please take care to tag spoilers in your comments by wrapping them with <spoiler></spoiler>. Spoilers in comments are hidden by a gray overlay. To reveal, simply hover or tap on the text!
Load Comments