The Winds of Winter publishing date guesses?

It's highly unlikely this year and next year. Let's give him a couple more years.

The HBO series ruined my thirst for medieval/high fantasy TV series genre. Or... Maybe it's just me being-- I'm getting older and snores halfway thru on watching hour-long episodes.

But yeah... At this stage, I'm way past the frustrated stage and had gone into submission and surrender. He may or may not finish the series.... I'll just bow my head and hold my peace.

Ps. Boromir is one of the characters I like and admire in the whole LoTR. The most human character, I'd say, imho.
 
From George's Not A Blog on November 8...

...let me assure you that, when not sweating out election returns or brooding over other real world problems, I have continued to work on THE WINDS OF WINTER.

No, sorry, still not done, but I do inch closer. It is a big big book. I try not to dwell on that too much. I write a chapter at a time, a page at a time, a sentence at a time, a word at a time. It is the only way. And sometimes I rewrite.

Of late I have been spending a lot of time with the Lannisters. Cersei and Tyrion in particular. I’ve also paid a visit to Dorne, and dropped in to Oldtown a time or three. In addition to turning out new chapters, I’ve been revising some old ones (some very old)… including, yes, some stuff I read at cons ages ago, or even posted online as samples. I tweak stuff constantly, and sometimes go beyond tweaking, moving things around, combining chapters, breaking chapters in two, reordering stuff.

None of this is even remotely new. It is how the first five books were written.

....

So that’s where all that stands. Or at least, that’s as much as I am allowed to tell you right now.

Hang in there, friends.
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If he didn't faff around so much the ending of the TV series might've been rather better...

Alas.
 
Seems we are finally getting close. just another year or 2 maybe...
 
He hasn't abandoned the project, as a hopeless mess. Yet. So, I suppose there is still hope. Though we all may need a Poulsen treatment or two to live long enough to finally feel those Winds of Winter.
 
Dan Jones said:
It is kind of magnificent that this thread was opened in the name of impatience nine years ago...
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He's not alone though - another author I'm newly following is only just getting one of their sequel books out after 9 years of waiting.
Pariah by Dan Abnett was published in 212 and its sequel, Penitent is coming out next year, so that's a 9 year wait. Then who knows how long before the 3rd book in the trilogy arrives.
 
I have it on good authority, Winds of Winter will be published May 4th 2023, 3 days before dragons return to earth lead by a guy called Arthur.

The following year Rothfuss will publish Doors of Stone, this will herald the start of the alien invasion.

No need to worry the dragons have returned along with Arthur to defend us from the aliens.
 
I wonder if Brandon Sanderson is actually a mutant whose incredible power is to be a successful author who also writes quickly.

Rhythms of War, the 4th part of the Stormlight Archives, came out last month. It's over 1,200 pages long. I think I'm right in saying all but one came out after A Dance of Dragons, and the one that came before was only a couple of months earlier.
 
thaddeus6th said:
I wonder if Brandon Sanderson is actually a mutant whose incredible power is to be a successful author who also writes quickly.

Rhythms of War, the 4th part of the Stormlight Archives, came out last month. It's over 1,200 pages long. I think I'm right in saying all but one came out after A Dance of Dragons, and the one that came before was only a couple of months earlier.
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Don't forget he has also written a number of other books in the same period. Maybe he has a time thingy that slows down time for him.
 
@nixie Maybe it steals time from other writers!

*gasp!*
 
Josh Reynolds and Robin Hobb also deserve to be in that "can churn out lots in a short span of time" club. Although the latter seems to be on a bit of a writing break. Maybe its a secret power that gets passed around; like a writers token. Authors can only hold it for so long before it mysteriously vanishes an appears in the hands of another writer
 
Overread said:
was published in 212 and its sequel, Penitent is coming out next year
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Assuming you mean CE (aka AD), I make it that you've been waiting 1809 years...


...which makes you a werewolf (and Abnett "goodness" knows what...).
 
I wonder how much has been re-written because of the negative reaction to the last few seasons of the tv series? I guess we may never know just how faithfully the tv guys were following the storylines of how Martin was intending his story to end. But with just how bad the tv show got in the last couple of seasons, it should make the author even more determined to get a 'proper' resolution out there for the fans.
 
Aye, but at the current rate I'm not banking on the final book(s) being released, frankly.
 
paranoid marvin said:
I wonder how much has been re-written because of the negative reaction to the last few seasons of the tv series? I guess we may never know just how faithfully the tv guys were following the storylines of how Martin was intending his story to end. But with just how bad the tv show got in the last couple of seasons, it should make the author even more determined to get a 'proper' resolution out there for the fans.
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the last good moment (aside from the visuals) came from what GRRM told them --> HODOR. I don't think the story itself is a problem. But the adaptation of the story. As soon as the books didn't spell it out completely, D&D were out of their debt. Like if you check Daenaerys story, she always sounds like a megalomaniac. So her fall from grace isn't so weird. What was bad was Jon Snow story who i think is going to be the real hero against the Night King in the books was usurped by the writers of the show for feminist movement and Arya shock (as per their video youtube comment). Add Bran whose role seems to be merlin to Jon's arthur suddenly being tranformed out of nowhere to be king cause what else where they going to do with him after they changed Night King story. Jon Snow exile cause of some minor character.... all that seemed bogus.
 
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