Winds of Winter: George R.R. Martin discusses novel in 2018 While a year later, Abraham teased a little more about what he knows concerning ASOIAF’s ending, in the book Beyond the Wall. George R.R. Martin says he is making "steady progress" on the seventh A Song of Ice and Fire installment while his film and TV projects are on hold. Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin recently confirmed that he continues to write The Winds of Winter amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Martin made it clear that the industrial Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has given another update on his highly anticipated A Song of Ice and Fire Book, The Winds of Winter, an update that fans might be happy to hear. RELATED George R.R. Martin, the author who created the Game of Thrones universe, is still working on the sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, the books that HBO’s Game of Thrones was based on. It’s been over a decade since the fifth book — A Dance With Dragons — came out, but that hasn’t lessened fans’ fervor to read the next installment in the series. George R.R. Martin's The Winds of Winter has the chance to fix a big mistake from Game of Thrones season 7, thanks to a plot device set up years ago. Summary Game of Thrones brought down the Wall using an undead dragon, but the storyline leading up to it was contrived and poorly executed. George R.R. Martin is "sorry for" people who aren't excited about the many Westeros-based projects he has in the works that are not the sixth A Song Of Ice And Fire book The A.V. Club Deadspin Author George R.R. Martin recently blogged about his progress on The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series that inspired the wildly popular HBO show. George RR Martin says The Winds of Winter will be ‘quite different’ to HBO show (Liam McBurney/PA) The first season of HBO’s House of the Dragon, based on Martin’s book Fire & Blood, Fans have been waiting over a decade for The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, the same series that spawned the mega-hit show George R.R. Martin Gives 'The Winds of Winter' Update Entertainment Books Stop Pestering George R.R. Martin! "I'm 12 years late with Winds of Winter, as we know," the 5VgJ.