George R.R. Martin - Tulen ja jään laulu: Kirjauutisia

FreyjaEn ehkä tulkitsisi ihan niin sananmukaisesti Martinin lausuntoa, mutta selvästikään kirja ei ihan heti ole valmistumassa. 2016 on vielä mahdollisuuksien rajoissa julkaisulle, uskoisin.

I've said before, and I will say again, I don't play games with news about the books. I know how many people are waiting, how long they have been waiting, how anxious they are. I am still working on WINDS. When it's done, I will announce it here. There won't be any clues to decipher, any codes or hidden meanings, the announcement will be straightforward and to the point. I won't time it to coincide with Xmas or Valentine's Day or Lincoln's Birthday, the book will not rise from the dead with Jesus on Easter Sunday. When it is done, I will say that's it is done, on whatever day I happen to finish.

I don't know how I can make it any clearer.

George R. R. Martin is almost done with the long-awaited sixth novel in the series that inspired HBO's Game of Thrones

It's not in our 2015 publishing schedule as it stands - I know no more than that at the moment.

FreyjaThe Guardianin artikkelissa kustannustoimittaja Jane Johnson toteaa jälleen, että TWoW ei ole tämän vuoden julkaisusuunnitelmassa, eikä hänellä ole tietoa josko käsikirjoitusta edes todennäköisesti olisi tulossa tänä vuonna.

I certainly hope that THE WINDS OF WINTER is not on the schedule of ANY of my publishers. I have spent years trying to persuade them all not to schedule my books until they are completed and delivered. Scheduling, and then having to reschedule and postpone, just pisses people off. I'd rather not schedule at all until the date is real and certain.

This flies against standard publishing practice, however, so it's a battle that I do not always win.

I am still planning for seven books.

We will have a 7th, 8th or 9th, no one knows. They only renew one or two seasons at a time. After we do season 6, maybe we’ll get a renewal for 7th and 8th. That all depends, Television is a very changeable medium.

Because whatever happens with the show I’m going to finish the books, it will be seven books. But each of these books are 1500 pages long and they each have enough material in them for several seasons. I have two more books, the one I’m writing right now, ‘The Winds Of Winter,’ and after that the last book, ‘The Dream of Spring,’ so those will be the two final books. But we’re talking 3000 pages of material. How many seasons that translates too? That’s up to D.B. And David.

We are already at work on Season 6. I met with David Benioff and Dan Weiss and Bryan Cogman [Friday] night and we had a long talk about some of the stuff that will be included in Season 6, but we haven't started writing that one yet

And, as a special treat, one of Villeneuve’s twelve gorgeous, dynamic paintings depicts a scene from The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth novel in A Song of Ice and Fire.

But not I am home again, facing the usual mountain of mail and email, and of course the monkeys on my back... those noisiest of them being HIGH STAKES, volume twenty-three in the Wild Cards series, and of course the Son of Kong, THE WINDS OF WINTER.

Once more into the breach...

I still hope to finish A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE in seven volumes.

A good story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end.

That does not mean I am done with the world, however. Westeros is large, and the world beyond it larger still, and teeming with tales to tell. At the very least, I have more Dunk & Egg stories to write.

Never say never... but there are no immediate plans for that.

Sometimes the wonders and terrors of the world beyond the hill are best left to the imagination.

I am wrestling with that decision right now.

I also know that HBO wants the series to run longer than that. I have known that since the very beginning... well, actually, since the day after the second episode of season one aired, when I had lunch with one of HBO's top execs, who told me, "We want this to run ten years." I allowed that ten years sounded fine to me. I continue to hear similar sentiments from HBO every time I have meeting with them, be it in LA or New York.

No, it is not. The world of Ice & Fire did not exist when I wrote THE ICE DRAGON.

Niksukuinka suuri osa on taas sitä sarjan tekijöiden "omaa keksimää" täytettä ja tietenkin täysin turhia seksikohtauksia.

Should I complete and deliver WINDS OF WINTER before these cons roll round, I reserve the right to change my mind.

Hollywood, alas, is the land of the perpetual tease. So many times you come so close to getting a project up and running, only to see it dissolve... sometimes for reasons that are never explained.

At least twice in recent years we have been close to making a deal on FEVRE DREAM with a major director, only to have the deals somehow melt away like morning mists.

I write the books as fast as I can, but that's not very fast. They are very big, very complex, very challenging. I have never been a fast writer, and the passage of years is not making me any faster.

Is it "kinda awkward?" Sure. Is it a "betrayal?" I think that's harsh, and unkind, and untrue.

Every time a new ICE & FIRE books comes out, I make millions of dollars. If all I cared about was money, I would be churning out new installments every year. Maybe two a year. They would, of course, be crap, but they'd sell.

I have always been a slow writer. I have always done book tours, attended a half dozen SF cons each year, watched NFL games in the fall, travelled for business and pleasure. I have always had more than one project going at any one time: novels, short stories, anthologies, Wild Cards, what have you. Expecting me to drop all that seems entirely unreasonable to me.