People may dislike these kinds of posts here, but I figure I may as well give it a shot.
Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse is a book series you guys might like. It's only on its first book, but it has enough political intrigue, world-building and unique characters to make it a suitable replacement for ASOIAF during the wait.
The story follows multiple POV's. One is a guy from Earth, Carter, who survives the destruction of our entire universe. He's introduced to the Multiverse by an organization called the Watchers, who teach him that the Multiverse is not a set of parallel universes but a place where infinite different universes coexist. The second POV is Mer, a politician in the Watcher government, which controls most human universes, and the third POV is Rial, a Watcher special forces agent.
If you want an intense, complex, emotional story that pulls a lot of the ASOIAF strings in a scifi setting, I really think you'll love this. Oh, and I'm the author. Full disclosure and all that. If you're on the fence, just click "Look Inside" on the amazon page and give it a read. You won't be disappointed!
Drugs are bad, hmkay? Buf if you are interested in stuff with multiverse: checkout this book. It's about people, who can detach themself from their universe and enter other instances of the multiverse. I acquired it when it was still in kickstarter phase and recently finished it, it is not bad.
Two recommendations, one historical and one fictional:
It's often claimed ASOIAF is heavily influenced by the Wars of the Roses, but you really don't understand that until you read the tale for yourself. Margaret of Anjou (Lancaster) is a real life Cersei Lannister, almost startlingly so, and Richard of York is Ned Stark if he had lived much longer. Edward IV, then, is a Robb Stark who wins the war of the five kings. An AMAZING story written by an amazing author who really keeps all the names and places straight, even for someone who has no knowledge of this historical period. Cannot recommend enough.
Full Disclosure: I wrote this one.
Perjure is a multi-POV story that blends all the political machinations and warfare of ASOIAF with a futuristic setting reminiscent of Mass Effect.
In Perjure's Multiverse, universes are not parallel reality but physical entities that exist within the Multiverse, the way solar systems exist within galaxies. A person who detaches from his native universe can travel to other universes, but usually a person only detaches when their native universe dies.
The Watchers are a Multiversal government that claims domain over most human-populated universes. After a conscious, sentient disease begins invading human universes and adding its victims to its hivemind, the Watchers dispatch a team of special agents to track down and kill it. Meanwhile Earth's universe dies, and a boy named Carter detaches. While searching for ways he might revive his universe, he learns that this conscious disease the Watchers are hunting might be able to help him--so he heads off to save the disease before the Watchers can wipe it out.
This all happens while a spy observes both Carter and the Watcher agents from the shadows.
I'm very late on this and it probably won't matter, but I figured I'd take a chance anyway.
Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse is probably the perfect book for you.
Just from what you wrote in your post, I assume your problem with books now is that they lack the depth and complexity of ASOIAF? Perjure is a multi-POV story set in a world where the Multiverse consists not of parallel universes but separate universes entirely--ones that you can travel between, where completely different alien races have evolved.
The Watchers are a Multiversal government that claims domain over most human-populated universes, and they've dispatched a team of special agents to track down and destroy a conscious disease that adds its victims to its hivemind network. Meanwhile Earth's universe dies, and only one boy survives. While searching for ways he might bring back his universe, he learns that this conscious disease the Watchers are hunting might be able to help him, so he heads off to save the disease before the Watchers can wipe it out.
This all happens while another Watcher agent sent to spy on the mission observes everything from the shadows.
It's an intense book with political manipulation, adventure and lots of emotion. I wrote it after reading books like ASOIF and watching shows like House of Cards. I think any fan of either series will love it a lot. Here's the amazon link.
If you're interested in a story that blends a bit of fantasy with scifi, you should check out Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse.
Rather than taking place in a world of parallel universes, Perjure's universe exist in the Multiverse the way planets exist in a galaxy. A person who can detach from his universe has the ability to travel to infinitely many universes and visit all of its inhabited planets, from the ancient worlds that consider writing a new technology, to advanced space colonies where humans have transferred their conscious minds to machinery.
It's told from 3 POV's, and it blends a lot of the political maneuvering of House of Cards and Game of Thrones with the worldbuilding of the ASOIAF books and the brutal prose of a Cormac McCarthy novel. It centers around a conscious, thinking disease that has been released into an ancient-era desert kingdom. A team of soldiers working for a Multiverals government called the Watchers is sent in to wipe the disease out, but they have to contend with a group that has entered the universe and infiltrated the kingdom in order to recruit the disease for its grand plans.
Full disclosure, I wrote it, but I really do think you'll enjoy it. Here's the link.
Cool! I do have two books written set in this world already--a main book and a side story. You can read a sample chapter here.
Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse is the main book. You can just click the "LOOK INSIDE" tab on the cover on Amazon to read the prologue, or you can check out the free sample chapter.
I wasn't sure exactly what you wanted, so I designed a general book cover. Hope you like it! Enjoy!
Was that what you were looking for?
If you wanna give me a tip, just grab a copy of my ebook! Otherwise feel free to ask for another design, but preferably in a top-level post so I can see it better. Have fun with it!
Here it is! Wasn't sure if you meant black leather or brown leather. The symbols were really interesting to try to imitate, but I'm sure I didn't quite get what you were imagining. Hope it's good enough anyway! Enjoy!
If you wanna give me a tip, just grab a copy of my ebook! Otherwise feel free to ask for another design, but preferably in a top-level post so I can see it better. Have fun with it!
I'm definitely selling on kindle. You can get it here.
As for the adversities I faced and what the process was like, I actually made a post on /r/getdisciplined. You can read that here.
TL;DR, I didn't write every single day, or even every week day, but I wrote every day that I could. I made writing my main task for the day, so that as long as I did that, it didn't matter if I was lazy about everything else. This eventually led to disregarding any sort of organized schedule, because the structured time slots were cutting into days where I was motivated to write for five hours or more (rare, but they did happen).
In the end, I developed a natural, consistent schedule according to my fitful habits, which helped me get very consistent in the final three months or so. Up until those three months though, it was always a fight.