The Official "Winds of Winter" Pool

[Huojin]

We're officially starting a pool to guess when George R.R. Martin will publish "Winds of Winter", given his lengthy and unpredictable delays in writing and publishing books. Anyone can enter, and you can't pick a month that's already been chosen. You can revise your guess if you want? We should probably have a deadline on that though, or like a cap on the number of times.

Also if this gets popular enough and people are winning, we could all throw in like $2-5 and the winner/closest person could get a copy of the book whenever it finally comes out. If not then winner gets gloating rights.

PREDICTIONS

Serenissima - December 2017
Master of Oblivion - May 2018
Huojin - July 2018
Luc - September 2018
Sonny - November 2018
Gesar - December 2018
BgKnight - January 2019
Smyg - November 2019

[Serenissima]

You know, I'll be the optimist on everyone's behalf and say December 2017.

[Langben]

Is it cheating if I just take the over?

[Coin]

Is it cheating if I just take the over?

Was going to say, can I throw in "never" The guy's 68, and doesn't exactly look youthful for his age, though I would love to see it out soon.

[Luc]

I'd say around September 2018, if the GRRM doesent die before that.

[BgKnight]

Put me down as January 2019, might as well.

[Sonny]

So he has released them earlier in the UK and usually a month or two later in the US. He didn't do that for the last book so I'll wager there's only going to be one release date. The most common months that he releases them have been in August and November. Usually 3-5 months prior to the books' release dates it's announced by his publisher.

That being said we're almost in July and he hasn't announced the book. In fact in May he said he's still working on it. Season 7 of the show comes out July 2017 with the finale, Season 8, expected in July 2018. He's a smart man and knows interest in the new book will be at its peak around the release of the last season.

That is why I believe the announcement for the next book will be in June-July of 2018 with a November release.

November 2018. Book it.