The release date for "The Winds of Winter", the sixth book in the series, "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin, is not yet officially announced. The writer is still working on it and is bent on completing it soon, notes the Winter is Coming website.

However, those in or near Kansas City can catch the author read excepts from chapters of his sixth novel this May 22 to 24 for the Conquest event, as announced by Martin himself in his journal post.

"I should underline the fact that I am the Editor GOH at Conquest (Brandon Sanderson is the Author Guest of Honor). I've been editing books just as long as I've been writing them (the first book I ever published was one I'd edited, not one I'd written), and to date I've been editor or co-editor on thirty-eight anthologies, with number thirty-nine on the way. Yet this will be be the first time that any con has ever honored me for my editorial work.

"Yes, I will be reading a chapter from THE WINDS OF WINTER there, and yes, I'll talk about ICE AND FIRE and my other writing... but the emphasis at Conquest will be on my editing, especially the WILD CARDS series, and one of my two scheduled autograph sessions will be limited to the anthologies I've edited. Just sayin'."

You can check out the announcement on the Conquest website itself and see a detailed schedule of Martin's activities, that involves reading some pages from the book, as well as book signing.

Fans React to Sansa's Scenes in HBO's "Game of Thrones"

Meanwhile, the TV series, inspired by GRRM's "A Song of Ice and Fire", just got negative reactions from social media users and even loyal viewers of the show, including Senator Claire McCaskill, reports CNN. The senator reacted strongly against Sansa's rape scene on the series, tweeting:

Martin, on the other hand, responded to this via his journal. According to him, TV is different from books and he understands the deviations that makers of HBO's GoT opted to have in the TV series.

He posted, "Prose and television have different strengths, different weaknesses, different requirements. David and Dan and Bryan and HBO are trying to make the best television series that they can."

He also added, "And over here I am trying to write the best novels that I can. And yes, more and more, they differ. Two roads diverging in the dark of the woods, I suppose... but all of us are still intending that at the end we will arrive at the same place."