George R.R. Martin Says He’s Making ‘Progress’ on The Winds of Winter (Sorta)

Gather round, Game of Thrones fans: it’s clip to brace yourselves for yet different update—or deficiency thereof—on George R.R. Martin’s advancement with his long-delayed book, The Winds of Winter.

In a caller interrogation with Time, Martin was, erstwhile again, pressed connected the presumption of his “new” book, The Winds of Winter. New is the operative connection due to the fact that the long-awaited Game of Thrones publication has been successful a perpetual limbo authorities for a decennary and immoderate change.

Not missing a beat, Time exertion Jeffrey Kluger segued into his question astir the presumption of Winds of Winter by speechmaking aloud a station from “some wags” online, who pointed retired “We got real dire wolves earlier Winds of Winter.” While we’re mode past the constituent of exhaustion entertaining updates connected the book’s status, Martin did stock immoderate penetration into his existent efforts portion empathizing with readers’ vexation implicit their endless wait.

“That’s the curse of my beingness here. There’s nary uncertainty Winds of Winter is 13 years late. I’m inactive moving connected it,” Martin said. “I person periods wherever I marque advancement and past different things divert my attention.”

As he noted successful his last update connected The Winds of Winter, 1 happening diverting his attraction from the publication is deadlines with “one of the HBO shows.” Martin besides got up of different online instrumentality critiques of his varying broadside quests, similar opening up a bookstore and a theater, arsenic reasons for his evident procrastination. In short, Martin said fans overestimate however overmuch clip he’s putting into things, saying he’s not down the registry ringing radical up astatine his bookstore oregon moving the projector astatine his theater.

On a related note, Martin mentioned that his caller photograph op with science’s latest affront to Darwinism, which resulted successful an adorable snapshot of him holding a quasi-dire wolf, didn’t instrumentality up excessively overmuch of his clip from penning The Winds of Winter, either.

“You’ve heard precisely what relation I played successful the dire wolf thing. I’m sitting astatine home. I might’ve been moving connected Winds of Winter oregon a screenplay, and suddenly, Peter Jackson is connected the line. I heard astir this, and I traveled retired to spot it. The travel was astir apt similar 4 days. I flew down to Dallas, we took the tour, and past we ate immoderate barbecue,” Martin said. “It did not earnestly impinge connected the penning of Winds of Winter. But radical marque it seem—my much fanatic fans—as if it’s 1 oregon the other, and it’s not.”

For Game of Thrones quality with firmer timelines, House of the Dragon play three is expected to merchandise sometime adjacent year. Before that, the Dunk and Egg bid A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is coming this summer. With immoderate luck, Martin volition person had a much important update connected The Winds of Winter by the clip these upcoming bid person completed their runs.

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