I made this post to some other subs, but I thought I'd post here with some additional commentary, as it is rather good news.

Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon has some interesting information. I have only had it a short time, most of which has been spent text searching "Jaime" and "Brienne". Those results were pretty much as expected, right down to the official position apparently being that it was a one night stand. *But* here is the good news: "The Forks in the Road" has some interesting revelations about the differene between the books and the show:

BOOK SPOILERS INCLUDING A HUGE ONE ABOUT SOMEONE OTHER THAN JAIME AND BRIENNE

1. Even during the pilot reshoot, George realised the show "wasn't entirely my baby anymore"

The director was talking to Dan and Dave. Nobody was saying , 'George, come over and tell us your opinion.

I didn't throw a tantrum or anything...I just came to the realization: I gave my baby up for adoption and now there is a parent teacher conference and I am not invited."

1. A cited "example of the show's early autonomy" was when the producers decided to have Joffrey ordered a singer's tongue removed:

"George was none to pleased, because in the books Marillion ends up being a patsy for Lysa Arryn's murder..." Bryan Cogman said. "David and Dan's reasoning was it's better television to have this minstrel that we'd spend the season with and that we'd figure out Lysa's murder when we got to it, and we did."

1. Cogman explains that at one stage, they knew they would catch up, "so it was learning a lot of these secrets and then in your mind figuring out, "What of that will work in the context of our show?". Then George is quotes as saying:

"It wasn't easy for me. I didn't want to give away my books. It's not easy to talk about the end of my books. **Every character has a different end**. I told them who would be on the Iron Throne and I told them some big twists like Hodor and "hold the door," and Stannis's decision to burn his daughter. We didn't get to everybody by any means. Especially the minor characters, who may have very different endings."

1. They then talk about blueprints and gardening and architecture etc, and eventually we get this explanation from Benioff:

"We don't get bonus points for being strictly faithful to the books. It doesn't give us anything extra. For every decision, if there's a fork in the road and the fork to the left is strictly adhering to the books and to the right is what's better for the series, we're always going to take that path to the right."

And this from Weiss about George stopping writing scripts and the show surpassing the books:

We chose to see it as a great thing on both sides. There's this amazing world George has created, and now there are two different versions out there. There's no reason we can see why you can't be thrilled and surprised and dismayed by both of these two different versions of this world.

1. And finally, from George:

One thing David and Dan did really right, that I couldn't have done if I was a showrunner, is the vast majority of our Emmys are for below the line - costuming, set decoration, stunt work and so on. They put together and incredible team of craftsman...[if I had put them together] would they have been the extraordinary people David and Dan found?

There is some good stuff about Jaime too - including confirmation that even in the show he killed Aerys to save the city. But the big take away is that the books and show are different things.