It’s been a couple of months since George RR Martin gave an replace on his progress with The Winds of Winter, which has now been delayed for 12 years

In the time because the launch of A Dance with Dragons, his newest ebook within the A Song of Ice Fire sequence, the whole thing of the Game of Thrones TV present has been and gone.

The showrunners needed to depend on the slow-paced creator’s plot factors from his final two unwritten books to complete the storyline.

Now over 4 years on from the tip of the HBO hit and the 75-year-old has given a uncommon touch upon the place he’s at with The Winds of Winter.

A clip from a latest public look with fellow creator Cassandra Clare has been posted on the A Song of Ice and Fire Reddit containing this second.

In this footage, Martin murmurs: “I’ve been working. I’m 12 years late with Winds of Winter, as we know.

“I’m just going to put it right out there, you guys don’t have to pester me about it.”

Around a yr in the past, the Game of Thrones creator appeared on Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The News with fellow author James Patterson, where he shared he’d written 75 per cent of the upcoming fantasy novel.

Martin stated he’d written about 1100-1200 phrases of The Winds of Winter and that there was nonetheless 400-500 to go.

Given the speed he’s taken to pen 75 per cent of the ebook, we’re most likely nonetheless a few years at the least away from the publication of the mammoth novel.

At this level, the creator might be pushing 80 and can nonetheless have A Dream of Spring to go to conclude A Song of Ice and Fire.