"Care to break the hearts of Game of Thrones fans everywhere? It might just take seven words:

'THE WINDS OF WINTER is not finished.'"

"So wrote George R.R. Martin in a lengthy blog post published in the wee hours Saturday. The author had hoped to publish the sixth installment of his massively popular fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, early in 2016 — which meant finishing and submitting the manuscript to his publishers before the end of 2015."

"But Martin says those hopes have been dashed."

"'You're disappointed, and you're not alone. My editors and publishers are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my agents and foreign publishers and translators are disappointed,' Martin writes, 'but no one could possibly be more disappointed than me.'"