GRRM trolling readers of his books.
'Oh sure, please forget I released Book 5 at the end of the 1st season of the show. But I'll pretend like I haven't been pretending to be writing the books for the last 8+ years, and that the show is the reason I haven't been writing them, like there was a contractional obligation that I couldn't release the next book before the TV series was finished.'
Seriously, Half-Life 3 is going to be released before Winds of Winter.
And looking at twitter, its amazing how many idiots don't know it.
GRRM seems to be making a shitload of money licensing his name out to several projects, that he is
supposedly working on, while neglecting the fanbase that made him famous to begin with.
At this point, book fans have only one option, a mass pledge to not pay any attention to any tv show, video game, ASOIAF side-story, or whatever else with GRRM's name on it until Winds of Winter is released.
I wish I had a sizable following on social media to get this started.