HM Asks:

Weird question but I’m from Australia, so I always wondered when you’re reading the characters in ASOIAF do you imagine them as British or as American? Also when you are imagining them speaking would they have a British accent similar to the show or do they speak with an American accent?

Also probably he’s never talked about it but has anyone ever asked grrm this question?

That’s a really good question. I definitely don’t think of them as speaking with American accents, but I’m not sure whether I think of them speaking with a British accent either. I’m not a fan of the audiobooks, so I don’t have that association either. 

I wasn’t able to find a definite quote from GRRM himself, but people have pointed out that some of his writing tics – m’lord and my lord – fit a British accent but not an American accent.