For better or worse, George R.R. Martin says the end of Game Of Thrones isn't influencing his books

Speaking with The Guardian about how the end of the show was “freeing” to him because he can now finish at his own pace, Martin quoted Rick Nelson’s “Garden Party” and said, “you can’t please everybody, so you’ve got to please yourself.” That could either be a good thing or a bad thing, based entirely on how you feel about the end of Game Of Thrones and what Martin intends to do with his books. He’s an artist, so he’s obviously not going to say that he changed his whole plan because of how the show did things, but it could mean that the things people didn’t like in the show might still happen in the same way in the books.

Elsewhere in the Guardian chat, Martin says that he felt a lot of pressure to finish his books while the show was popular, and that he’s now become so famous that he doesn’t like going to parties or to bookstores because he gets recognized and has to take selfies with people, but annoyances like that are probably a lot easier to swallow when you’re getting millions of dollars for not writing books.