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This is word of mouth so take for that what you will but Shawn Speakman, someone who works within the publishing industry who is friends with George and his editor, who has allegedly been in communication with George's editor, Anne Groell, and has communicated that at this time George has enough pages to bind a full length The Winds of Winter book.

This would allegedly put George at the 1500 manuscript page mark as opposed to the 1100 page mark he has been quoted at the end of 2022 and 2023.

However, there is apparently some back and forth between George's publishers and George over splitting the book because although George may have reached an appropriate page length for another full-length novel, the book is not at a point where George would feel comfortable ending The Winds of Winter on.

This information comes from Read by Kyle, a book tuber, who spoke with both Shawn Speakman and the communicated this to Bend the Knee Podcast (news starts at 1:24).