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Dungeons & Dragons brought me back to writing and saved my career.

By Matthew Dicks | August 13, 2014 |

The New York Times reports that Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz is a former Dungeons & Dragons player. So too was Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire. Many more. The league of ex-gamer writers also includes the “weird fiction” author China Miéville (“The City & the City”); Brent Hartinger (author of “Geography…

I worry that George R.R. Martin will die before finishing his Song of Fire and Ice series, and yes, that’s not a nice thing to think.

By Matthew Dicks | July 14, 2014 |

George R.R. Martin is the author of the popular Song of Fire and Ice series which you may know better as Game of Thrones. He’s currently writing the sixth of that was originally going to be seven books in the series, though he recently hinted that there may be an eighth. Martin is 65 years-old.…

Every death in A Song of Ice and Fire, displayed in rainbow-like horror

By Matthew Dicks | December 4, 2013 |

I have yet to begin reading the Game of Thrones series (actually called A Song of Fire and Ice). I’m watching it on HBO, but I’m afraid to begin reading the books. The author, George R.R. Martin, is 65 years old and has written five novels in the series since 1996, with six years elapsing…