Martin wrote in his blog: "I know that you are waiting for the wind of the winter, and you will get them. I'm glad you stayed with me. Your patience and inexhaustible support is very much for me. Read with pleasure. I returned to my fortress of loneliness, again in Westeros. It will not happen tomorrow and not next week, but you will get the finals of the "Songs of Ice and Flame". Meanwhile, very soon you are waiting for the final episode "Games of the Thrones" and the new series, while the unofficially named "Long Night". For him are now looking for actors, and script writes for a couple of projects. And something else is cool. Not only winter is close. "
It turns out that not only fans annoys the slowness of the writer, but also his own. In a recent interview with Ew Martin complained that he could not finish the novel. "Many are angry at me for the fact that I did not finish the" wind wind ", like me myself. I would like to finish the book four years ago. There were dark nights when I fought my head about the keyboard and thought: "Lord, how do I add it? The show continues further, and I'm lagging behind. What is going on?" But I must do it. Not that I rested seven years. I continue to publish other things, but it is very important for me to finish the book, which I myself could be proud of, "the writer spoke.
The final season of the Games of the Thrones, meanwhile, is already closely - it will be released in April 2019.