A Crown Should Not Sit Easy On

Sometimes There Is No Happy Choice, Sam, Only One Less Grievous Than The Others. - Jon Snow

You May Be As Different As The Sun And The Moon, But The Same Blood Flows Through Both Your Hearts. You Need Her, As She Needs You.

I Could Have Written A Story About A Well-adjusted Family. Ned Stark Comes Down To King’s Landing And Takes Over And Solves All Their Problems. Would That Have Been As Exciting?

I'm A Strong Believer In Telling Stories Through A Limited But Very Tight Third Person Point Of View. I Have Used Other Techniques During My Career, Like The First Person Or The Omniscient View Point, But I Actually Hate The Omniscient Viewpoint. None Of Us Have An Omniscient Viewpoint; We Are Alone In The Universe. We Hear What We Can Hear... We Are Very Limited. If A Plane Crashes Behind You I Would See It But You Wouldn't. That's The Way We Perceive The World And I Want To Put My Readers In The Head Of My Characters.

I Have Done A Lot Of Work In Hollywood Myself. I Worked In Television For Roughly 10 Years, From The Mid-'80s To Mid-'90s. And I Was On Staff At A Couple Of Shows. I Did Some Feature Films, Including Originals And Adaptations.