We've got good news for Game of Thrones fans, George R.R. Martin just gave us an update on Winds of Winter and HBO's future plans for the Game of Thrones spin-off series. The bad news is, well, neither is coming anytime soon if at all.

According to the 74-year-old author, the Warner Bros. Discovery merger has had an effect on "several" of the "successor shows" that are set in Westeros,

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I did take a few days off for the holidays, I confess. Shame on me, I guess. But now I am back in the salt mine, working… working on so many bloody things, my head may soon explode. Yes, WINDS OF WINTER, yes, yes. And HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, season two. And several of the other successor shows that we're developing with HBO. (Some of those are moving faster than others, as is always the case with development. None have been greenlit yet, though we are hoping… maybe soon. A couple have been shelved, but I would not agree that they are dead. You can take something off the shelf as easily as you can put it on the shelf. All the changes at HBO Max have impacted us, certainly.)