A Dance with Dragons
In 2009, Martin confirmed that, contrary to earlier statements, Sansa Stark would not appear in "A Dance with Dragons"; Sansa chapters initially slated for the novel have instead been pushed back to "The Winds of Winter", which is planned to be the sixth book in the series. In early 2010, Martin noted that his intent for "A Dance with Dragons" was for the first 800 manuscript pages to cover the alternate characters in the same time span as "A Feast for Crows", and that "Everything that follows is post-"Feast", so that's where some of the cast from the last book start popping up again." Stating that "I wanted to resolve at least a few of the cliffhangers from "Feast"," Martin also mentioned the possibility that some of his finished chapters might get pushed to the next novel, "The Winds of Winter," depending on the length of the finished manuscript for "A Dance with Dragons".