The final we heard from George R.R. Martin’s “I’m done giving updates on Winds of Winter” updates on Winds of Winter, the creator believed he’d hit about 75% of the way by writing the Tune of Ice and Hearth novel he’s been updating us about for over a decade. Now? Ehhhh.
In a current interview at an event with Shadowhunters author Cassandra Clare, Martin briefly joked that early 2025 might nonetheless see him making an attempt to finalize the sixth ebook in his beloved fantasy sequence. When Clare raised that she has a brand new novel due out March of 2025, The Ragpicker King, Martin playfully added “the actually miserable factor is that also might beat The Winds of Winter, who the hell is aware of?”
Now he’s clearly joking slightly—instantly after, the author added “I’m 12 years late with Winds of Winter, as we all know. I’m simply gonna put it proper on the market, you guys don’t should pester me about it.” However it’s nonetheless slightly unhappy for Martin that, after at the least establishing a fairly optimistic replace this time final yr concerning the progress of the novel, even having sworn off giving updates, now the creator shouldn’t be completely certain that he might have Winds of Winter completed in over one other yr’s time. At the very least he’s placing it on the market and never beating himself up about it.
“It’s a massive, massive ebook, I’ve stated that earlier than. It’s a difficult ebook. It’s in all probability gonna be a bigger ebook than any of the earlier volumes within the sequence,” Martin stated of the method of writing Winds in his past update, throughout a livestream for Penguin Random Home in October 2022. “Dance with Dragons and Storm of Swords are the 2 largest books within the sequence, they had been each about 1,500 manuscript pages. I feel this one goes to be longer than that by the point I’m completed with it.”
With Home of the Dragon set to return subsequent yr, and HBO nonetheless wanting to discover much more features of the Sport of Thrones universe past it, it’s not like followers received’t have some snippets of Westeros to bide the time away. However it’s clear there’s nonetheless going to be plenty of that point to bide away relating to Winds of Winter.
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