Marc Comtois

As the first season of the HBO series based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series 1st book ( A Game of Thrones ) reaches it's climax, I've been re-reading the series in anticipation of the of the 5th book, A Dance with Dragons , set to be released in July. I just started the 4th book, A Feast for Crows , and, because I've read them one after another, have been struck--well, "jarred" is more like it--by the way Martin chose to open the 4th book with completely new POV characters in locales either only briefly visited (the Iron Islands) or never visited (Dorne).  It was an interesting gamble and, so far, I have to agree with this blogger : I don't think it works. But in AFFC George has got us going on a sight-seeing trip all over the goshdanged place, from one "exotic" locale to another. We're reading stories about characters we've only just met and don't give a fig about, and the whole thing has gone from the tal...

Proofed the first proof.  Changed formatting of footnotes, added, some blank pages, re-did Index, re-worked the Intro. Re-submitted, approved and now...another proof is on the way. Hopefully this will be OK.

I recently discovered that my Great-great Grandfather Israel Hebert was quite an upstanding member of his community, Racine, Quebec. July 16th (my birthday, coincidentally) will be "Israel Hebert Day" and the town is naming a street after him. More can be found at www.israelhebert.com .  Cool!

Got the proof yesterday. Kind of weird to see your work in book form. Looks like the footnote formatting is good. I'll be checking it for the next couple days.

Proof is on the way, be 5-7 days. Hoping not too much revising to be done. Worried a bit about the way the footnote formatting came out.

I'm pleased to announce that, thanks to Createspace , I'm publishing my first (and probably only!) historical monograph, Burgundians in the Mist .  If you're interested, check out the preview chapter .