George R.R. Martin promises he won't touch the Game Of Thrones spin-off until his book is done

But there’s no need to worry, A Song Of Ice & Fire fans! Martin has promised—promised—on his blog that he won’t be touching any scripts for House Of The Dragon until he has “finished and delivered” Winds Of Winter. “Winter is still coming,” he says, “and Winds remains my priority, as much as I’d love to write an episode of House.” Martin wrote a number of big episodes in the early half of Game Of Thrones’ run, back when it was still cute that he kept doing things other than writing his books, but we’ll have to wait a bit before he does the same for this new show. Or at least that’s what we assume. Maybe he’ll just Beyoncé-drop the book tomorrow and immediately start writing House Of The Dragon episodes? That’d be fun.

Elsewhere in his post, Martin mentions that HBO Max’s decision to move forward with this project doesn’t mean it’s the only Game Of Thrones spin-off that’ll happen. He reasons that, “if television has room enough for multiple CSIs and Chicago shows,” then it should be able to handle more than one series about a fictional world with thousands of years of established history.