You also shouldn't say it to me. You shouldn't say it to anybody. Things get done as they get done. If they get done. And if they don't, that's not your business, either.

Things get done when they get done. That's the writer's business, nobody else's. I am really sick of people ragging on GRRM, who a friend.

No worries.

Oh, yes.

Sorry, but I can't answer because I haven't read them. They're popular history, and this is the one area where I don't need those. I need academic studies.