Hi! Sorry to bother you with this but do you know if there is any news about The Winds of Winter release date? I’ve been away from the ASOIAF fandom for almost a year now but last time I checked a lot of people seem to think that the book should come out this year and I just wanted to know if that is still the case. Thanks.
As of the second-to-last report (in July 2017), GRRM was saying it was possible that TWOW could come out in 2018 along with Fire and Blood vol 1. However, as of the last report (in February 2018), he was only planning on F&B for 2018, and said it would come out before TWOW. Which means that whatever his estimated finish date was in February, it’s probably not soon enough that the publisher could get the book edited and printed before the end of the year. (FYI, his publisher turnaround time is about 3 months.) It might still be possible that TWOW could be out in 2018, especially if we hear something from him around July – giving us, say, F&B in October, TWOW in December 2018. But personally? I very much doubt it, and I wouldn’t get my hopes up if I were you. Take any article from clickbait sites with huge grains of salt.
