post on his website. “I am spending long hours every day on ‘The Winds of Winter,’ and making steady progress.”However, he clarifies that this does not mean that the tome will be published, say, next week. “It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go,” he writes, although he hopes that by 2021 “both COVID-19 and ‘The Winds of Winter’ will be done.”When not writing or thinking about writing, he says, he’s passed the time in lockdown watching television and reading.