Until there is concrete new information, Martin will not be updating fans, he says. Volume 2 will come after TWOW, he has said.

However, in February GRRM answered a fan question on his live journal explaining that the first volume of his history of the Targaryen dynasty will be out before The Winds of Winter, and this may have been what he was hinting at with his New Year. “I hope better times are ahead for all of us,” he wrote, giving us all hope that Winds is finally on its way. Whether WINDS or the first volume of FIRE AND BLOOD will be the first to hit the bookstores is hard to say at this juncture, but I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018… and who knows, maybe two.”įans’ hopes were reignited at the end of 2017, when he posted a tweet that appeared to hint at good things to come in 2018. I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that’s all I care to say. Both ‘reports’ are equally false and equally moronic. I don’t know which story is more absurd, the one that says the book is finished and I’ve been sitting on it for some nefarious reason, or the one that says I have no pages. Later that year, in July 2017, he wrote on his LiveJournal page: “I’ve seen some truly weird reports about WOW on the internet of late, by ‘journalists’ who make their stories up out of whole cloth. (But hey, I thought the same thing last year).” On January 10, 2017, Martin said of the sixth A Song of Ice and Fire book: “I think it will be out this year. And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…” What has Martin said about TWOW‘s release date in the past? There are characters who never made it onto the screen at all, and others who died in the show but still live in the books… so if nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet. And of course the butterfly effect will be at work as well those of you who follow this Not A Blog will know that I’ve been talking about that since season one. I expect these last two books of mine will fill 3000 manuscript pages between them before I’m done… and if more pages and chapters and scenes are needed, I’ll add them.

They had six hours for this final season. “I am working in a very different medium than David and Dan, never forget. “How will it all end? I hear people asking. I won’t say when, I’ve tried that before, only to burn you all and jinx myself… but I will finish it, and then will come A DREAM OF SPRING,” he said. THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done. Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is.

A song of ice and fire books in order