Martin knows youre worried.

Finish the book, George is a meme.

And theres still yet another novel,A Dream of Spring, that he hasnt started yet.

But the author is making an unusually firm pledge to fans that he absolutelywillfinish his saga.

Your patience and unflagging support means the world to me.

Me, I am back in my fortress of solitude, and back in Westeros.

Winter is not the only thing that is coming.

The author listed his current mood as excited.

In arecent EW Q&A with the author, Martin expressed his despair about trying to finishWinds.

And Im mad about that myself.

I wished I finished it four years ago.

I wished it was finished now.

The show is going further and further forward and Im falling further and further behind.

What the hell is happening here?

Ive got to do this.

The illustrations by Doug Wheatley are great.

I know that just as much as the angriest of my hardcore fans.

And I have continued to publish other things.

Its not like Ive been on a seven-year vacation.

I haveWild Cardsbooks coming out every six months.

But not like this, one thats entirely my writing.

So to finish a book that Im proud of and excited by was emotionally a big lift for me.

As for the prequel series, here iseverything we know so farabout the HBO project.