While this NotABlog focuses on a Waldrop feature, GRRM made a point to mention something that is the topic of a lot of recent posts here:

>(I know, I know.  Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or ***THE WINDS OF WINTER****.*   You have given up on me, or on the book.  I will never finish WINDS,  If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING.   If I do, it won’t be any good.  I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me…     I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old.   I lost all interest in *A Song of Ice and Fire* decades ago.  I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money.   I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards.   You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and ***DYING OF THE LIGHT***, “Sandkings” and B***EAUTY AND THE BEAST***,  “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” ***OLD MARS*** and **O*****LD VENUS*** and ***ROGUES*** and ***WARRIORS*** and ***DANGEROUS WOMEN*** and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois,   You don’t care about any of those, I know.   You don’t care about anything but ***WINDS OF WINTER***.  You’ve told me so often enough).  
Thing is, I ***do*** care about them.  
And I care about Westeros and ***WINDS*** as well.  The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all.  More than you can ever imagine.



GRRM NotABlog 5/28/2025: Howard Meets Hercules (Spoilers Extended)