He most likely had a contractual obligation to HBO that stipulated that he may not finish the GOT series until they're done with the series, but after the disastrous reception of the ending (based on his notes), he no longer wanted to finish the book to begin with. He was already working on several other projects.
We should also factor in the culture war, the Trump presidency and his proposed 'wall'. G.R.R. Martin is a left-progressive crazy (he even drags black female nobody writers to red carpet events to promote them) and probably didn't want his 'work of art' to feed the 'right fascist MAGA Nazis' in their culture war, just like Tolkien's work began to do (with the Sauron reports). (Perhaps this is also the reason why Amazon completely sodomized and vandalized the work of Tolkien.)
rofl, you're right, but I still think it was part of his HBO contract. He was probably getting tens of millions out of it. The franchise supposedly generated 2.2 billion dollars worth of profit, as of 2019.
He most likely had a contractual obligation to HBO that stipulated that he may not finish the GOT series until they're done with the series, but after the disastrous reception of the ending (based on his notes), he no longer wanted to finish the book to begin with. He was already working on several other projects.
We should also factor in the culture war, the Trump presidency and his proposed 'wall'. G.R.R. Martin is a left-progressive crazy (he even drags black female nobody writers to red carpet events to promote them) and probably didn't want his 'work of art' to feed the 'right fascist MAGA Nazis' in their culture war, just like Tolkien's work began to do (with the Sauron reports). (Perhaps this is also the reason why Amazon completely sodomized and vandalized the work of Tolkien.)
The current book that this rumor is about isn't even the last one. Five books are published. This is book six out of a planned seven.
rofl, you're right, but I still think it was part of his HBO contract. He was probably getting tens of millions out of it. The franchise supposedly generated 2.2 billion dollars worth of profit, as of 2019.