Martin has also been telling fans of “Game of Thrones” that they should not feel bad that “The Winds of Winter” has not been released yet because there are already some plots of the show that have deviated from the storylines in the book.
He also revealed one major deviation that involves Stannis Baratheon and his daughter Shireen. In the TV series, fans and viewers of “Game of Throne saw that Stannis and his daughter Shireen perished in Season 5 of the show.
On the insistence of Melisandre, played by Carice Van Hauten, Stannis, played by Stephen Dillane, sacrificed Shireen, played by Kerry Ingram, to the Red God and she was burned alive at the stake.
However, the sacrifice did not help Stannis gain victory against the Boltons just outside of Winterfell.
Season 5 eventually saw the brutal death of Stannis after Ramsay Bolton, played by Iwan Rheon, and his army handily defeated his tired and weary army. But it was not Ramsay who killed Stannis but Brienne of Tarth, played by Gwendoline Christie.
In the fifth book “Dance with Dragons,” both Shireen and her father Stannis are still alive. Martin previously confirmed that Shireen will lose her life in “The Winds of Winter,” but it is still not clear if Stannis would also lose his life in the sixth book.