A Feast for Crows is done! Kind of...

[Olive]

I'm not sure I'm happy with this... I guess it means that there will be a book out soon, and then a second book out (hopefully by the end of the year), but that some characters (potentially including Jon Snow) won't be seen until the second book...

 

[Teflon Billy]

So, there will be no...

• Arya
• Jon Snow
• Stannis
• Tyrion
• Danaerys

This is what he manages to get to print after 6 years? Most of his main characters missing?

Nice work :\

 

[ForceUser]

So, there will be no...

• Arya
• Jon Snow
• Stannis
• Tyrion
• Danaerys

This is what he manages to get to print after 6 years? Most of his main characters missing?

Nice work :\

Yeah. Arya, Jon Snow, and Danaerys are my favorite characters. Oh well.

 

[KenM]

So, there will be no...

• Arya
• Jon Snow
• Stannis
• Tyrion
• Danaerys

This is what he manages to get to print after 6 years? Most of his main characters missing?

Nice work :\

Thats no big deal at all. Just picture if George Lucas did episode 3 without Padme, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Yoda and Palpatine. No big deal at all. Was'nt Tryion on the cover at one point?

 

[Krafus]

So, there will be no...

• Arya
• Jon Snow
• Stannis
• Tyrion
• Danaerys

This is what he manages to get to print after 6 years? Most of his main characters missing?

Nice work :\

If AFfC could have been published as a single, massive book, GRRM would have done so. However, his publishers told him that wasn't feasible. They hadn't been happy at the size of ASoS, and asked him to make AFfC about the size of ACoK. So when the manuscript page count for AFfC exceeded that of ASoS, he knew he had a problem. He talked about it with his publishers, and ended up facing two choices: publish AFfC parts 1 and 2 (which would have meant that none of the POVs would have had, to him, a satisfactory ending in part 1) or publish two novels, each featuring the full story of a number of POVs. He picked the second choice. I wish he'd gone with the first choice, but I understand his reasons.