Diana Gabaldon, 'Outlander' Author, Throws Shade at George R. R. Martin for Missing Deadlines

In the early days of 2016, George Martin, the man who created the A Song of Ice and Fire book series that Game of Thrones is based on, confirmed to fans that the next novel wouldn't come out any time soon after he missed numerous deadlines. Now, Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander, is throwing some mild shade at Martin over his slowness in writing The Winds of Winter.

According to IGN, the 63-year-old author is currently on the 2016 Television Critics Association press tour ahead of the second season of Outlander, and she was asked whether she'd had the same problems writing as Martin, which she lightly denied.

"Unlike George, I write no matter where I am or what else I'm doing," Gabaldon said. "When I began writing I had two full time jobs and three small children. I wrote in every spare minutes I had, and so I've just kept that work ethic, so to speak."

Just last week, Martin revealed he still had a long way to go until Winds of Winter was finished, saying that there were many possible causes why this has happened, between them his travels or how much he updates his blog. In the past, he has shared that he has a few odd quirks when it comes to sitting down to write, including how he works on a WordStar 4.0 from the 1980's, as he told Conan O'Brien a while back, according to Rolling Stone.

Still, Gabaldon has far more time on her hands than Martin does, as she's already written eight books with only one season of the series adaptation so far. For Martin, the time to update the story before GoT is up: over the past season, the HBO show caught up with the books he's written so far, and the sixth season will actually go further than the books have. When the show's season 6 premieres next spring, the stories will be unknown to book and show fans alike.

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