Without a doubt the most controversial and widely disliked moment on HBO’s Game of Thrones last season was Sansa Stark’s violent wedding night. Though it’s early yet, the least popular story line this year seems to be the continuation of the Dorne plot featuring Ellaria Sand and her bloodthirsty nest of Snakes. And, just as he did last year with Sansa, George R.R. Martin has released a new chapter (which you can read here) from his long-awaited book, The Winds of Winter, that highlights how much the show has diverged from his source material. It’s a Dorne-centric chapter that features several characters who were murdered in the Season 6 premiere. Could this be a frustrated author’s best attempt at trying to reclaim the world he’s created?

As the massively popular show looks less and less like the massively popular book series it’s based on, Martin has distanced himself from the creative process. This attitude from the author really picked up steam back in Season 4, when the tone of a sexual encounter between Cersei and Jaime translated very differently on-screen than it did in the book. And in Season 5, when the sexual assault on Sansa sent shock waves through the fan base, Martin reiterated his hands-off stance:

There have been differences between the novels and the television show since the first episode of season one. And for just as long, I have been talking about the butterfly effect. Small changes lead to larger changes lead to huge changes. David (Benioff) and Dan (Weiss) and Bryan (Cogman) and HBO are trying to make the best television series that they can. And over here I am trying to write the best novels that I can. And yes, more and more, they differ. Two roads diverging in the dark of the woods, I suppose… but all of us are still intending that at the end we will arrive at the same place.

As if to drive home the difference between show Sansa and book Sansa, Martin—who definitely knew that wedding-night scene was coming—released a Sansa-centric chapter titled “Alayne” (her alter-ego at that point in the books) one month before the episode “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” premiered. In that chapter Sansa is safely (well, “safely”) ensconced at the Eyrie and nowhere near Winterfell, Ramsay, and his terrible dogs. As far as we know, in Martin’s version of the story, she’ll never run into Ramsay at all. For better and sometimes worse she’s a different girl entirely (with a different name, even) on the page.

Martin had been releasing around two chapters a year since 2013, but the chapter he published late Tuesday night, “Arianne II,” is the first he’s posted since that Sansa chapter. Arianne is the name of a fairly popular book character that the show decided to do away with altogether, and, in introducing the chapter, Martin at least obliquely addresses those who were angry that Prince Doran Martell (Alexander Siddig) and Areo Hotah (DeObia Oparei) were dispatched so unceremoniously in the Season 6 premiere. “You want to know what the Sand Snakes, Prince Doran, Areo Hotah, Ellaria Sand, Darkstar, and the rest will be up to in WINDS OF WINTER?” Martin wrote on his blog. “Quite a lot, actually. The sample will give you a taste. For the rest, you will need to wait.”