11 October 2010 Update:
At the New York Comic-Con, GRRM's American publishers announced that ADWD is five chapters away from completion, with those chapters already existing in draft format. Bantam US have confirmed that they want the book completed by Christmas and to be able to announce a release date in the New Year. George R.R. Martin himself has not commented yet on this news.
Shortly after the above, Shawn Speakman, who works for Bantam, confirmed that ADWD is approaching the 1,500 manuscript page cut-off point, and the publishers are discussing with GRRM the possibility of making ADWD even larger than ASoS or pushing more material to Book 6.
According to this report from io9, which is reporting from New York Comic Con, GRRM?s editor Anne Groell has revealed that George has informed his publisher that he has five chapters left to write to complete A Dance with Dragons, and that those five chapters already exist in partial form. According to Anne:
We?re hoping to have a finished manuscript by Christmas. He?s told me he has five chapters left and bits of each chapter are done. He really wants it done by the end of the year. We really?I mean really?want to announce the pub date in January.
Es decir, le faltan 5 capÃtulos para acabar y ya los tiene empezados. Espera, la editora, que para navidades tenga ya el libro completo y puedan dar una fecha de salida el dÃa de año nuevo. A ver si se cumple
También comentan que se está acercando al lÃmite de 1,5k páginas y en la editorial están pensando si dejar que Danza sea más largo que Tormenta o dejar material para Winds of Winter.