You can’t discuss the next game of Thrones book without the debate being annulled to a moral argument of whether Jorge R.R. Martin owes us the winter winds after so many years of waiting.
It is not that the discussion affects the author and his process in the least, but even accepting that each creator approaches the work at his own pace, we cannot help but notice that almost 12 years have passed since the last book came out, and more . six since he was supposed to.