George R.R. Martin says he's "sorry for" people who only care about The Winds Of Winter
"I am sorry for you," Martin said of fans who aren't interested in all the other Westeros projects he has in the works. "They all matter to me."

We’re now coming up on the 11th anniversary of A Dance With Dragons, the fifth—and, at the moment, latest—installment of George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series of fantasy novels. Those ten-plus years have seen a lot of changes for Martin, who’d already been a big name in the genre writing world on the back of both ASOIAF, and also any number of other projects, but who has since been elevated to much wider fame by the success of HBO’s TV adaptation of his work, Game Of Thrones.
Along with that uptick in fame, though, has come less desired attention: Namely, endless, increasingly high volume requests to know when The Winds Of Winter, the penultimate book in the series, might actually get around to coming out.
Martin—who, to his credit, is openly communicative with frustrated fans through his regularly updated “not a blog”—has tried a number of tactics to deflect these demands over the years, from unrealistic promises, to offering up the distractions of other projects, to reminding people that he’s an actual person, and telling him that you’re worried he’s going to drop dead before finishing some book you want to read is kind of mean.
He ventured a new gambit this week, though, beginning a new post that serves as a round-up of the many, many Westeros-projects he currently has in the works, by noting that he feels “sorry for” anyone who only cares about The Winds Of Winter, when there’s so much other content they could be getting excited for.