Wild Cards week: INSIDE STRAIGHT coming out, BUSTED FLUSH in the works
Well, it’s been an exciting and fun week for Wild Cards. I just turned in revisions on my story for the second volume of the new trilogy, Busted Flush, in which my character Cameo finally has a feature...
View ArticleNew Wild Cards website live
I’ve been mentioning it earlier about the new book coming out, but Tor has just launched the new website for Wild Cards, www.wildcardsbooks.com There will be more added in the coming weeks, including...
View ArticleWild Cards: American Hero & other interactive web fiction
Tor’s new Wild Cards website has been spiffed up and updated, with information on the mass signing in Albuquerque today with most of the Inside Straight authors. Moreover, Tor has just launched the...
View ArticleComicon International 2008 — Dr. Horrible, The Dark Knight, and me
Back from Comicon. Also back from Westercon. Thoughts…. First off…wow. Comicon was amazing. In over twenty years of attending, Comicon’s managed to outdo itself again, mostly by dint of those who came,...
View ArticleRum & Comics
In Cuba around 1863 the Bacardi family began to distill rum. Their logo is a bat, modeled on the families of fruit bats that nested and swooped through the Bacardi cane plantations and distillaries....
View ArticleThe Fortress of Solitude
What do you think? Was the 1978 Superman the best movie made from a comic book, with all other attempts going downhill after that, with the exception of the first two Spidermans (2002 & 2004)? And...
View ArticlePublication basking: Busted Flush here, latest Wild Cards novel
I got my author’s copies of Busted Flush yesterday, the latest Wild Cards novel which I wrote part of. I’d seen bits and bobs of the other author’s sections during the writing phase, for character...
View ArticleFort Freak, and Writing in the Cities You’ve Never Visited
As before, news and a rumination. The news is that Fort Freak, the latest volume in the ongoing Wild Cards cycle, has been announced over at George R.R. Martin’s blog, and I’m among the writers tapped...
View ArticleWild Cards book give-away, just in time for the holidays and SUICIDE KINGS
A fairly simple announcement: To celebrate the launch of the latest Wild Cards novel SUICIDE KINGS (which I’m not in, but my character Cameo is, being written by Daniel Abraham) Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist...
View ArticleComicon 2010 round-up and wrap-up, Saturday, Sunday
Continuing the Comicon 2010 report from the previous post…. Saturday: I had some thoughts of seeing the Chuck panel, as I was there early enough, but early enough for the panel and early enough for the...
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