A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin has given an update on his long-awaited novel The Winds of Winter, and it's both good news and bad news.
In a new post on his Not a Blog page, Martin reflected on his summer. “Writing was hard, and while I did write some new pages on both THE WINDS OF WINTER (yes) and BLOOD & FIRE (the sequel to FIRE & BLOOD, the second part of my Targaryen story), I would have liked to have produced a lot more,” he commented. “My various television projects took up most of those months. Some were enjoyable (DARK WINDS and THE HEDGE KNIGHT), most were not.”
Martin recently took to his page to criticize the second season of House of the Dragon in a now-deleted post. While discussing the butterfly effect of removing Maelor from the series, Martin concluded, “And there will be bigger, more toxic butterflies to come, if House of the Dragon goes ahead with some of the changes being contemplated for Seasons 3 and 4…”
The wait for The Winds of Winter has been long, and Martin has previously commented that “if I could change one thing about one of my books, I would finish them.”
She has also promised answers to an important question about dragons in her upcoming works. “They bond with men… some men… and the why and how of that, and how it came to be, will eventually be revealed in more detail in THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING and somewhat in BLOOD AND FIRE,” she wrote.
While you wait for The Winds of Winter to come out, you can catch up on House of the Dragon season 3 via the link.