The new covers
https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/07/09/on-the-road-again-5/
Blog about TWOW where he assures the book reveal will be a huge event.
Let me say a few words about that, though. Last year, when I mentioned seeing my Voyager editor in London, the internet went nuts, throwing up all sorts of theories about how this meant that WINDS OF WINTER was done and a huge announcement was at hand. Uhhhh… sorry guys, but no. That's not how it works. Making contacts… which often turn into friendships… is a huge part of publishing. Most of my communication with my editors and publishers is conducted via emails, phone calls, zooms, and texts (in the old days, we had letters written on paper too)
So calm down, please. When WINDS OF WINTER is done, the word will not trickle out, there WILL be a big announcement… where and when I cannot say.
https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1dzk4gq/spoilers_main_grrm_when_winds_of_winter_is_done/
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for the 100th time
!bookworms !kino do you like the new covers?
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Anyone expecting the next book to ever come out is an r-slur. If something crazy happens like he survives the first heart attack then we might get it. Or his estate may hire someone to finish his draft but that's it. He's not writing this book.
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it'll release within 2 years of his death after someone else is hired to finish it.
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That's my thought too unless he gets some near death experience wake up call but i don't see that happening at his weight and age.
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he's been backed in to a corner and doesn't know how to get out. the way the show ended was his story. he saw the reaction to it and knows he can not release that story. he's been desperately trying to rewrite everything but has no idea how to do it or where to go since the ending he's had in his head for decades was terrible.
if people had loved the end of the show, the book would have been out years ago. i'll never think different.
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Which is insane. The only people unhappy with it were the feminist lefties who loved the violent despot "anti slavery" denaerys. No one else minded the ending.
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BUT SHE WAS THE HEROIC GURL BOSS! SISTERS WERE DOIN' IT FOR THEMSELVES!
i didn't actually watch it. i stopped watching the show when they caught up with the books because
i'm gonna read the book first and it'll be out any day now. 
. that was like 20 years ago. 
but it felt like it was universally hated and it wasn't just a fringe group
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the king's landing massacre happened, it was justified, and daenerys didn't go far enough.
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There was a lot to cringe at show Daenerys (her girlboss speeches for instance), but chuds angry at her for crucifying the poor slave masterinos (the Ghiscari are a super degenerate and sadistic slave society) are cute twinks. She killed 163 of them but I'm convinced based Stannis would have burned them all.
The destruction of King's Landing was a cool scene even if it made no sense plot wise due to lack of build up.
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The show ended in 2019, 8 years after ADWD was published. GRRM got stuck long before the show ended as AFFC and ADWD kept introducing new POVs and locations, during that time he promoted the show, wrote Fire and Blood and screenplays for the show. His most productive years so far were the pandemic years, that's when he gave a bunch of updates until 2022 when he said he had 1100-1200 manuscript pages done, it was the first time he gave an update on written pages in almost a decade. And after that nothing.
I think TWOW will be published in some way as too much of the book exists but book 7 is never coming outside maybe some outline notes.
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New and Improved ASOIAF - Brando Sando.
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