Insider senior reporter Kim Renfro writing an unofficial history of Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones will soon be history. By the time the show ends in 2019, it will have been on the air for eight years (with one year off), and in development for a few years longer than that. And where there is history, there are history books. Kim Renfro, who’s been covering Game of Thrones for years over on Insider, is stepping up to write an unofficial history all about our favorite series, tracing it from its inception through its coming finale.

Renfro made the announcement on Twitter; where else? Although there’s no title yet, we know that the book will be an extension of the reporting Renfro has done over the last several years, with a target drop window of fall 2019, after season 8 has wrapped up; that way, it’ll be able to tell the whole story from start to finish. Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish.

We assume the book will cover the fan community. We’re available for input, just saying.

Simon and Schuster has previously published books like Notes from the Upside Down: An Unofficial Guide to Stranger Things, so this isn’t their first time at the rodeo. For those unfamiliar, unofficial books are not authorized by the owner of the works they document, which in this case is HBO. It’s a pretty popular genre, and unofficial histories exist for everything from The Simpsons to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Wire and well beyond. Books about Game of Thrones have been written as well, such as Game of Thrones Versus History: Written in Blood, but never quite like this.

Game of Thrones isn’t history quite yet, but when it is, we may just pick up Renfro’s book and remember times gone.

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