George R.R. Martin confirms his writing schedule

Appearing at an event in London put on by British publisher Waterstones, A Song of Ice and Fire author and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin gave us some insight into where his head is at these days, including a look at the next few projects he has planned. Let’s take a closer look.

Thanks to Adam Whitehead of The Wertzone blog for live-tweeting the interview. The most interesting thing Martin said probably involved his writing schedule:

Naturally, the long delayed next chapter in the Song of Ice and Fire saga, The Winds of Winter, is next in line for completion, although Martin was clear he still does not have an exact release date for that book.

Somewhat surprisingly, Martin does not next plan to write A Dream of Spring, the purported final book in the series, but rather return to his Tales of Dunk and Egg prequel novellas, a series of shorter stories set about a hundred years before the events of A Song of Ice and Fire. The three stories out so far follow the adventures of the knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Aegon V Targaryen, also known as “Egg.”

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You may remember that Egg actually got a mention in Game of Thrones, when Maester Aemon was dying at Castle Black. “Egg, I dreamed I was old.”

On the one hand, the Dunk and Egg novellas are rather short compared to a proper Song of Ice and Fire book, meaning he could theoretically crank that out pretty quickly. Plus, the fourth Dunk and Egg story, The She-Wolves of Winterfell, was originally going to be published in an anthology book way back in 2013, so you’ve got to figure it’s already partially done, if not nearly complete.

On the other hand, people are really eager to read the end of A Song of Ice and Fire. We’ve already waiting a very long between between A Dance of Dragons and Winds…we’re still waiting. Anything between Martin and completing the series is sure to raise an eyebrow.

After Dream comes a fifth Dunk and Egg story, and then the second volume of Fire and Blood, Martin’s history book about the Targaryen dynasty. Brace for adventure.

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Around that bombshell, Martin dropped some other interesting tidbits:

What do you all make of this? Anything stand out?

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