These updates are where my mind goes whenever I see a fan or critic claim that Martin has 'lost all interest' in finishing the books, or that he's deliberately taking on more than he can chew because he only cares about profiting from his unfinished story. Once more into the breach, dear friends…Westeros beckons.' March 11, 2021: 'I need to finish WINDS, and then maybe write another Dunk & Egg novella, and then get right into A DREAM OF SPRING, and in between edit some more Wild Cards books.Or maybe I just got on a roll.I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion. The best year I've had on WOW since I began it. February 2, 2021: 'I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020.But I slogged on, and of late I am picking up steam again.' Progress has continued since then, but more slowly…I suffered a gut punch in early August that really had me down for a time, and another, for different reasons, in early September. November 8, 2020: 'I was really on a roll back in June and July.Here are quotes from the last three blogs that mentioned the book:

Included will be her original eight illustrations, along with 28 newly commissioned ones.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Tuf Voyaging interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio. and in every case the only thing that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity-and his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues.

With his unique equipment, Tuf is set to tackle the problems human settlers have created in colonizing far-flung worlds: hosts of hostile monsters, a population hooked on procreation, a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands-hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats.

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