Next novel won't be out before Game of Thrones returns: George R.R. Martin

Game of Thrones fans, brace yourselves for a bad news…

George RR Martin will not have his next novel out before HBO’s Game of Thrones returns in April, Entertainment Weekly reported.

The author reportedly posted on his blog earlier today that eagerly awaited The Winds of Winter is “not finished.”

“My editors and publishers are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my agents and foreign publishers and translators are disappointed… but no one could possibly be more disappointed than me,” he writes.

Fans have been concerned about this because the storylines in the series have now surpassed the narrative in Martin’s books and are now reportedly plowing into previously unrevealed territory.