Interview

Here's a link to interview Carrie Vaughn and I did during last month's Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. 

Thanks to Annie Saunders and KWNK! And thanks to Sundance Books for providing us a quite room to speak in!

Wild Cards Interview

Hey, an interview I did, now up at Wild Cards World! Among other things, I talk about whitewater rafting and kayaking. Fun fact: I'm going whitewater rafting and kayaking this weekend in California! 

Interview is HERE.

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!

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!

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!

Wild Times

I'm back home after an awesome Wild Cards reunion in Santa Fe. Highlights include hanging with a bunch of authors, staying at GRRM's guest house, a big panel event, followed by a big signing event, visiting sets used in Western movies, stopping in to watch filming of a movie, meeting Vincent D'Onofrio and Ethan Hawke, meeting the lovely Marisa Xochtl Jimenez of the Stagecoach Foundation, watching Sage (my 16 year old son) network with authors, actors, directors and producers. He's got skills. Also, the last night's bash at Meow Wolf, where this photo was taken!

Wild Cards Mass Signing

Here's a cool thing:

"Jean Cocteau Cinema Celebrates the WILD CARD ANNIVERSARY by hosting  a special multi-author book signing with the authors of Wild Cards, an epic science fiction anthology about super heroes and powerful villains (edited by George R.R. Martin)."

That includes me!

Here's the announcement on the Jean Cocteau website.

And here's George's post on his Not a Blog.

It'll be a good time. My son, Sage, is going with me. I'll get to watch him network. ;-)

Fantastic News!

I've been sitting on this for awhile now, so I'm thrilled that GRRM has finally gone public with the news! 

Check this out: Wild Cards Heads to Broadway!

A Carrie Story

Love this. A new Wild Cards Story at Tor.com by Carrie Vaughn - "The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown". It's got super cool artwork by John Picacio:

Good work.

Good friends.

Wild Cards World

The Wild Cards Series has a shiny new website. It's lovely, and going to be growing and active and (hopefully) full of awesome news about great things to come. (Things are in the works.) If you click over to it you'll see - among others - one of my characters featured on the covers displayed on the main page! The snaky dude. (At this point I'm obligated to mention that my son was my co-creator of this character, as he always reminds me.) Anyway, check it out!

Believe George!

If you watch you'll catch a glimpse of my character in action on one of the covers. Hint: he's the one wearing a hoodie. Further fact: he's a good guy.

High Stakes

Here's a thing. My third contribution to one of GRRM's Wild Cards novels. This one gets horrific. In the best of ways, I hope...

High Stakes Delivered

Very pleased to have sent my portion of the next Wild Cards novel, HIGH STAKES, in to George RR Martin last night. It's been a long process this time around, with some serious delays. But yesterday I got what I needed to finish, I went to work and 4,167 words later I pressed SEND. (My sections are 43,000 in total.) So. Done.

Until I have to do rewrites.

Now back to packing and teaching and all the other things of life!

Lowball: A Wild Cards Novel

I'm very pleased to announce that as of today the newest Wild Card's mosaic novel is available!

It's edited by George RR Martin, is out in the world. It features original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt, and Walter John Williams.

Oh... and me!

Here, by the way, is the final cover:

 
The dude on the front is Marcus Morgan, also know as the Infamous Black Tongue. IBT for short. He's the product of a collaboration between myself and my son. He wouldn't exist quite the way he does with Sage's input. Awesome, that.

Wanna sample of this thing? Okay, here's one at Tor.com. It begins with a Michael Cassutt's story, and then includes the first part of mine.

Actually, I've gotten some love a number of times with in excerpts. IBT is featured on the Amazon page for the book, as well as in the official excerpt on GRRM's site.

Here's some copy from the jacket:

Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with those given extraordinary—and sometimes terrifying—traits. While most manage to coexist in an uneasy peace, not everyone is willing to adapt. Down in the seedy underbelly of Jokertown, residents are going missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate, except for a fresh lieutenant looking to prove himself and a collection of unlikely jokers forced to take matters into their own hands—or tentacles. The deeper into the kidnapping case these misfits and miscreants get, the higher the stakes are raised.

Never tried Wild Cards? It's a long-running series, but not to worry. You could begin at the book just before this one, Fort Freak (Wild Cards). It's the start of a new cycle, and it also features my character!

Coming soon, a new Wild Card's novel!

Two Wild Cards related things...

One is that after a long time sitting on it, I think I can finally display the cover art for the forthcoming Wild Card novel, Lowball. What gives me particular pleasure is that my character, Marcus Morgan (aka The Infamous Black Tongue), is featured on the cover! The kid owns it.

Check it out:

It sill needs all the covery-bits added, but that's the image. Love it. You know what's even better? My son Sage was instrumental in creating this character. To hear him tell it, he did create the character. Don't believe it for a minute. ;)

The artist is Michael Kormack. Check out his work HERE.

The reason I think it's okay to show this now is that George RR Martin has it up on his website. He's using it to illustrate the page with an excerpt from Lowball. And you know what's even better than that? The excerpt is from my multi-part story, "Those About to Die..." Awesome. In all likelihood it'll be on GRRM's site for ages, since the next book - the last in this trilogy - won't be out for a while yet. I'm going to be in that one too. Actually, I'm working like crazy to deliver my contribution by the end of this month. Wish me luck on that, please.

Anyway, should you want to check out the excerpt, it's available HERE.