ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Fabled author, George R.R. Martin, the mastermind behind the popular Game of Thrones television and book series, had the gall this afternoon to tell his publisher that his fingers hurt – forcing the 70-year-old’s publisher to take disciplinary action.
Martin has been kept largely against his will at his New Mexican compound by his publishers, Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, until he completes the final two books in the ‘A Song Of Fire And Ice‘ series.
Industry insiders have suggested that Martin is writing up to 20 hours a day, stopping only to sleep, eat and empty himself.
However, afternoons such as these are different.
In order to break the American Tolkien’s spirit, his publishers often punish him, by making him push wheelbarrows full of bricks up a hill for example, for thinking he lives to serve a purpose other than that to produce books for them.
The news comes after the New Jersey-native was imprisoned illegally by HBO during the production of the final television series of Game of Thrones.
Martin explained to reporters after the ordeal that he was often flogged with lengths of bamboo and kendo sticks by HBO executives whenever he asked to have a break.
More to come.
