Jean Cocteau Cinema's Signed Books

GRRM just reminded me that he has signed books - by many authors but me included - at his Jean Cocteau Cinema. They have copies of my Spartacus novel The Risen as well as three of the Wild Cards books I've contributed to. All of those have also been signed by George and any other authors who've visited the Cinema (and signed books they wrote or contributed to, I mean). There's a lot to choose from across many genres. Go check it out. Signed books make great presents!

Die Gladiatoren Von

This showed up in the mail today, sent from GRRM. I wasn't sure what it was, but I could tell it was in German.

Oh, I see. It's LOWBALL, a Wild Cards novel that I wrote for. Don't know that I knew this would be published in Germany, but... yay!

Super Special UNBOUND

This just showed up in the mail:

It's the super special signed edition of UNBOUND, edited by Shawn Speakman. I'm in it, and the book is lovely. Yay! Look, signatures!

Video

I make a brief appearance on a video posted at GRRM's "Not a Blog." It's from short interviews we did when we gathered in fall of 2017 for a reunion/get together. I'm on at 1:06.

Black History Lunch

This is fun. The Wild Cards writers room celebrates Black History month.

Good peeps. Good food. And gonna be great shows!

Blog Post

There's a new blog post I wrote up at Wild Cards World.

This one is about doing horrible things to another person's character.

Wild Cards Heading to TV!

Here, at long last, is the announcement of a supercool thing I've known was in the works for quite awhile now: Wild Cards series is a go on Hulu!

This is rather exciting. Like, really exciting. Among other things, the first show is going to begin with Fort Freak, the first book I wrote for!

Award Winners Announced

I recently had the honor of judging the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's College Writing Award in the fiction category. I read some really good stories, and for awhile I wasn't sure what was going to distinguish one as the winner. Then I read a story called "Belly." That decided it. Such a good story, from a writer the world is going to hear more from. I read the stories anonymously, and I've only recently heard who the winners actually are. 

The Foundation has just announced them!

And, by the way, this is the same award that I won way back in 1992. Good things come of it!

Coming Soon: Saladin Ahmed!

Here's something that makes me happy. Next week Saladin Ahmed visits the University of Nevada, Reno! He'll be here for the week, hanging with students, visiting classes, critiquing grad student work, doing events in the Reno community, and giving a reading on Tuesday, February 6 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm! 

We'll be feeding and entertaining him, too, of course. Isn't UNR cool?

Loving it here.

New Cards

Two new Wild Cards covers. One Eyed Jacks is a reprint from an earlier volume.

Low Chicago is brand new. Wild Cards continues to gain steam! Love that and really pleased to be involved with the series. Fingers crossed that the TV version happens!