So where does Neil Gaiman come into this?

Back in 2009, a fan wrote in to Gaiman's journal, asking for his opinion on if George R.R. Martin owed it to his fans to write faster. This was Gaiman's response:

Look, this may not be palatable, Gareth, and I keep trying to come up with a better way to put it, but the simplicity of things, at least from my perspective is this:



George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.



This is a useful thing to know, perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is, indeed, your bitch, and should be out there typing what you want to read right now.



People are not machines. Writers and artists aren't machines.

The whole response is worth a read, if you are so inclined.

In the end, what happened on stage with Paul & Storm was a culmination of four years of geekery across multiple media platforms coming together in a perfect storm of good fun!