Author of the bestselling series A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin, has announced that the next novel in the series, The Winds of Winter, is 75% complete. He made this revelation during a live stream for his publisher Penguin Random House.

In his words, "It's a big, big book, I've said that before. It's a challenging book. It's probably gonna be a larger book than any of the previous volumes in the series. A Dance with Dragons and A Storm of Swords are the two largest books in the series [to date]. They were both about 1,500 manuscript pages." He continued, "I think [The Winds of Winter] is going to be longer than that by the time I'm finished with it, and I think I'm about three-quarters of the way done, maybe? But that's not 100% done, so I have to continue to work on it."

Despite the update, the author emphasized that it will still take a while to publish the book when he eventually completes writing it. Also, Martin stated that his publisher might divide the book into two separate volumes due to its huge size.

The most recent book in the epic series, A Dance with Dragons, was published 11 years ago. While fans have since watched an entire series based on the books, the final season was less than satisfactory. Recently, one of the show's stars admitted as much.