Martin ended up pausing his Clash of Kings work to write The Hedge Knight, and the gamble paid off: Not only was The Hedge Knight accepted into the anthology, but the novella attracted a lot of new eyes to Martin’s writing. (It’s also unclear if Martin plans to write a Dunk and Egg novella that shows Duncan in the Kingsguard, but readers know from stray ASoIaF mentions that he’ll get the position through his friendship with Egg.) Regarding his planned fourth Dunk and Egg novella, Martin wrote, “The unfinished novella was indeed set in Winterfell, and involved a group of formidable Stark wives, widows, mothers, and grandmothers that I dubbed ‘the She-Wolves,’ but ‘The She-Wolves of Winterfell’ was never meant to be more than a working title.”