

She is the daughter of one of the most powerful Houses in Westeros and niece to Lady Arryn, Catelyn Stark’s sister. Littlefinger keeping Sansa for himself as part of his bid to become the lord of the Eyrie and take over House Arryn makes sense. a huge loss that earned him nothing whatsoever-a political maneuver so stupid and shortsighted that one can’t really call it a maneuver at all. This was an “out of the frying pan into the fire” moment for Sansa.

At the least, we’ll be reading it sooner than we would otherwise.I’ve long argued that HBO’s Game Of Thrones jumped the shark not in its shoddy 7th season and not during the execrable final season, but rather the moment Littlefinger took Sansa Stark and pawned her off on the Boltons for no good reason whatsoever. Hopefully that means we’ll all be reading Winds of Winter later this year. The book obviously still isn’t coming out during Game of Thrones season 6, but he’s making the effort to get it out soon-to accomplish that last push and get it done. All of them take up time (not to mention the convention visits!), and are part of the reason why Winds of Winter isn’t already out.īasically: GRRM is clearing his schedule to finish Winds of Winter. George has had a lot of these projects in the last few years-from fantasy anthologies to books like World of Ice and Fire. The decision not to work on editing projects besides Wild Cards is also critical. As WinterIsComing noted, he’s also bowing out of some other commitments involving travel so he can focus on the book. And I've dropped all my editing projects but Wild Cards.” So, no episode written by GRRM in the next season or two of Game of Thrones. Teleplays, screenplays, short stories, introductions, forewords, nothing. 16 in a comment on his blog (hat tip: WinterIsComing), GRRM noted that “I am not writing anything until I deliver Winds of Winter. We’ve been waiting for the Winds of Winter release date for a long time, but it’s a lot easier to wait than it is to actually write the thing.
