Well, I saw T-A-G pounding away at his keyboard most all day yesterday. Hoping he’s getting there.
But to be honest, I am not thinking July.
Will cross fingers for August, late August….
As has happened before, he paused for a bit on OOA, and then got on a roll on Book IV, but OOA is the closest to completion, simply because Book IV is twice as long, or is planned to be. It has a maximum size based on how many pages and how small a font the Dead Tree edition can be. OOA and COA were always thought to be shorter books.
OOA will be multiple books where 2 OOA = 1 DOA roughly.
COA I am not sure on, these are all single POV, so in COA vol II I might do a different POV not sure yet. I just know where COA concludes, and maybe that is Happily Ever After. Too soon to tell, and too many other plotlines for T-A-G to deal with.
DOA is expected to be about 7 books, although it could be more, at one time it was to be a Trilogy of Trilogies, but that is 9 books, which is not a prime number so that means 7, 11 or 13 and obviously, 7 and 13 are more significant, and thus auspicious than 11.
The problem is T-A-G has gone all GRRM and to get to 13 books might take longer than a human lifetime.