George R.R. Martin barely made a key Knight of the Seven Kingdoms deadline

HBO’s latest Game of Thrones spin-off, the appealingly small-scale prequel series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, has author George R.R. Martin back on the interview circuit, talking about the show, revisiting the seemingly endless process of writing The Winds of Winter, and mentioning that he wants to write several new novellas about Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ protagonists. That last one won’t come as a surprise to longtime fans who’ve followed his past updates on his work: At one point, Martin suggested he might have as many as a dozen stories about down-on-his-luck hedge knight Dunk and his 10-year-old squire Egg in the works… just as soon as he finished The Winds of Winter.