'Winds of Winter' Release Date: 'GoT' Author George R. R. Martin Says Book Isn't Finished

After months of speculation about the release of The Winds of Winter, the sixth novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, author George R. R. Martin has shattered everyone's dreams in a single blog post: the Game of Thrones sequel is still being written and will not be released any time soon.

To kick off the year, the 67-year-old author took to his Livejournal site, Not a Blog, to share some bad news for the fans of the books: Winds of Winter is not yet finished, and there's no telling when it will be ready for publication.

"The book's not done. Nor is it likely to be finished tomorrow, or next week," Martin wrote on his blog, then adding that those ongoing rumors that he hadn't written a word were untrue. "There's also a lot still left to write. I am months away still... and that's if the writing goes well. (Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't.)"

The man who created Westeros shared that he knows he's disappointed fans (as well as his publishers, HBO, his agents and a myriad of other people close to the project) but hasn't disappointed anyone more than himself that the book won't be released before the sixth season of Game of Thrones, after he missed two deadlines, one in Halloween and the other by the end of 2015.

As Variety reports, even if Winds of Winter is never published, Martin has already told GoT showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss what happens and how the books end, and while they've shared that their treatment of the different stories will be different, it's also true that they've promised the end results would be pretty much the same.

For months, there had been rumors about Winter coming out near March, about a month before the next season of the HBO show, after a Spanish publisher publicly said they were expecting the manuscript some time in 2015.

Martin has basically confirmed that the publisher had been given the right information, as he should have delivered new pages by New Year's Eve, but unfortunately, fans of the story will have to wait for HBO's version to get a glimpse of what happens now.