George R.R. Martin has released one chapter from The Winds of Winter on his website for fans to read.
The Game of Thrones author recently announced the sample chapter on his “Not A Blog” website, along with a taste of High States, which is a volume of Wild Card that he will be releasing in August.
“And… because I know how much b***hing I’d get if I offered a new sample from Wild Cards without also doing one from A SONG OF ICE & FIRE… we’ve also changed the WINDS OF WINTER sample on my wesbite, replacing the Alayne chapter that’s been there for the past year with one featuring Arianne Martell. (Some of you may have heard me read this one at cons),” Martin wrote on his website.
Game of Thrones fans shouldn’t get too excited yet because Martin said he is still hard at work on the book. Just because he changed the sample chapter on his official website does not mean he is finished writing the book.
“You want to know what the Sand Snakes, Prince Doran, Areo Hotah, Ellaria Sand, Darkstar, and the rest will be up to in ‘Winds of Winter’? Quite a lot, actually. The sample will give you a taste. For the rest, you will need to wait,” Martin wrote on his site.
The Winds of Winter is the sixth book planned in the Game of Thrones series which is a series of seven novels.
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The last book Martin released in the series was A Dance with Dragons in July of 2011. Fans have become concerned because the HBO series has now caught up to and gone beyond the stories that Martin has published.
The author released an apology to fans letting them know that there will be some spoilers in the sixth season for the readers.
“Look, I never thought the series could possibly catch up with the books, but it has,” Martin wrote. “The show moved faster than I anticipated and I moved more slowly. … Given where we are, inevitably, there will be certain plot twists and reveals in season six of Game of Thrones that have not happened in the books.”
Game of Thrones airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.