On The Winds of Winter Release Date, George R.R. Martin Still Says, “I Don’t Know”

By Kara Michelle Sep 13, 2014 10:48 PM EDT

On The Winds of Winter Release Date, George R.R. Martin Still Says, "I Don't Know"

The Winds of Winter release date is still unknown. The author himself admitted he doesn't know when he will finish the much anticipated sixth installment in his "A Song of Fire and Ice" seven-book fantasy epic. "I don't know," George R.R. Martin told Digital Spy. "I have days where I make lots of progress, I have days where I make next to no progress, I have days where I think I'm going backwards because I don't like what I wrote yesterday. So I've given up making any predictions on that. I'm just writing it and when it's done, it'll be done."

Martin who has been contributing one "Game of Thrones" script per season for the last four seasons has decided he won't write one for Season 5. Neither will he make any set visits this year. He will finish writing "The Winds of Winter" book first. "I'm not writing a script for season 5, but I'm still a co-executive producer, so I'm still involved on that level, he said to Digital Spy. "It takes me about three weeks to a month to write a script, and with all the pressure to finish and deliver The Winds of Winter, I decided my time was better spent finishing the book than taking off three weeks to a month to get a script done."

Commenting on "The Winds of Winter" progress, Martin's UK publishers, HarperCollins Voyager, reportedly "confirmed that the novel will definitely not be published in 2014, but that a 2015 release is possible," according to The Wertzone.

Meanwhile, fans can visit the "A Song of Fire and Ice" blog post at Tor.com to go over a compilation of "The Winds of Winter" sample chapters and preview pages that have already been made available by the author at various occasions and places in the past, including his 'The Winds of Winter' pdf on Google docs. For those after 'The Winds of Winters' spoilers, James Walker at The Artifice has an interesting article which lines up twelve major plot points which they can anticipate to find in Martin's upcoming novel. Of course, fans for the meantime can also just join in the Is Jon Snow Dead? discussions at the "A Forum of Ice and Fire" website.