The novelist has been working on The Winds of Winter since 2011, when he completed the fifth novel in the series, A Dance With Dragons. Since then, HBO’s television adaptation has brought millions more readers to Martin’s stories of dragons, war and royal dynasties. At the start of 2016, Martin told his readers that “there’s a lot written. I am months away still.”This weekend’s blogpost was his most substantial progress report in months, and suggested it was still possible The Winds of Winter could be published in 2018. That one is largely written, and will include (for the first time) a complete detailed history of the Targaryen civil war, the Dance of the Dragons,” wrote Martin.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2017 09:00 UTC