George RR Martin has used a new blog post about an upcoming animated film to hit back at years of abuse from impatient readers, accusing some fans of telling him he is 'so old' and 'going to die anyway' because The Winds of Winter is still not finished. The 75‑year‑old A Song of Ice and Fire author wrote the post on his personal site after announcing he will produce an adaptation of A Dozen Tough Jobs, a novel by his late friend and science fiction writer Howard Waldrop.
Every time the author surfaces online with anything that is not a progress report from Westeros, a vocal subset of his audience piles in. For those who have not been following the saga, The Winds of Winter is the long‑delayed sixth volume in his fantasy series, the source material that inspired HBO's Game of Thrones. Fans have been waiting more than a decade for the book, and Martin's other creative ventures have increasingly become lightning rods for that frustration.
