'The Winds Of Winter' Release Date: George RR Martin Hints The Reason For The Delay; Fans To Be Blamed?

Now that 2016 has just started, the excitement for the sixth novel of George R.R. Martin entitled "The Winds of Winter" has been constantly growing each passing day. Now, new reports claimed that the New Mexican author has hinted what makes him distracted in writing the much-anticipated novel.

Screen Crush shared that George gave some intriguing comments about his long-spoken distractions that prevent his writing on "The Winds of Winter." "I know that each individual who asks that question thinks it is just one question... but the questioning is endless. Every day. From many sources. Blog comments, livejournal messages, emails, sometimes snail mail, interviews. No matter how often I update (I used to, you know, several books back), someone else will be along the next day to ask for another one. It wears me out," the 67-year-old author stated via his official LiveJournal account. "I may do a year's end post tomorrow though, so..."

George has been very vocal about his distractions when writing the novel. However, despite these obstructions preventing him to write "The Winds of Winter," he promised to fans that he will finish the long-overdue tome before the airing of "Games of Thrones."

"Having 'The Winds of Winter' published before season 6 of "Thrones" airs next spring has been important to me all along. I wish it was out now. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic about how quickly I can finish," George opened up in an interview with Entertainment Tonight in April. "But I canceled two convention appearances, I'm turning down a lot more interviews-anything I can do to clear my decks and get this done."

International Design Times previously reported that the novel will come out in 2016's first quarter, before the April comeback date of "Games of Thrones." However, up until now, no official release date was made available yet. With that being said, for now, fans should wait for the official words from George himself.

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