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Love, Lust, and Aces

This is an exciting month for all of you Wild Cards fans out there… and for all the other readers who have not discovered Wild Cards yet.  (What are you waiting for??)

We’re pleased to be able to announce the release of the PAIRING UP,  the thirty-second volume in the series (don’t worry, you can enjoy this one without having read the previous thirty-one volumes), an original anthology of all new, all original tales about love, lust, and heartache in the world of the Wild Cards, featuring some o...

Reginald and Roger

When I’m not writing, you can often find me reading.   I’ve been a voracious reader since grade school… and I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them.   So when a British fellow named Reginald asked me to come on his podcast to discuss one of my favorite books, I was pleased to agree.   The hard part was picking a book.   I have a lot of favorite books, and favorite authors.   Tolkien, Heinlein, Lovecraft, Waldrop, Fitzgerald, Dickens, Bernard Cornwell, Stephen King, Jack ...

DARK WINDS Takes Two

Awards season is upon us, and I am pleased to report that DARK WINDS has won two Vision Awards, given annually by the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC).

Zahn McClarnon won for best performance in a drama, for his portrayal of Joe Leaphorn.

And DARK WINDS itself was voted the Best Drama Series.

 

You can find more details about the award, and full list of the winners, here:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dark-winds-leads-namic-vision-1302...

Leaphorn & Chee Are Coming Back

Mark July 30 on your calendars.

That’s the day that Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are set to return for the second season of DARK WINDS, our adaptation of the award-winning “Navajo Detective” series of novels by the late great Tony Hillerman.  I had the honor of being one of the Executive Producers on the series, along with Robert Redford, Chris Eyre, Tina Elmo, Anne Hillerman, Zahn McClarnon, Vince Gerardis, Graham Roland, and showrunner John Wirth.

If you missed the first season, you can stream it...

Mark July 30 on your calendars.That’s the day that Joe Le...

Mark July 30 on your calendars.

That’s the day that Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are set to return for the second season of DARK WINDS, our adaptation of the award-winning “Navajo Detective” series of novels by the late great Tony Hillerman.  I had the honor of being one of the Executive Producers on the series, along with Robert Redford, Chris Eyre, Tina Elmo, Anne Hillerman, Zahn McClarnon, Vince Gerardis, Graham Roland, and showrunner John Wirth.

If you missed the first season, you can stream it...

The Strike Comes to New Mexico

Last week the Writers Strike reached the Land of Enchantment, with picket lines in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe that shut down a couple of shoots.  The biggest turnout was Friday, when we picketed the Greer Garson Studios for most of the day.

HEY HEY HO HO
CORPORATE GREED HAS TO GO

Santa Fe does not have as many WGA members as California, of course, but while we don’t have the numbers, we yield nothing to California when it comes to determination.

Some friends from distant lands joined us as we...

VOYAGING Vol. 1: THE PLAGUE STAR Graphic Novel COVER

We are pleased as punch to be announcing the new cover for the upcoming graphic novel adaptation VOYAGING:Vol 1: The Plague Star.

With some excellent recommendations from some old friends and a few new ones, check out the full description below as well as the official cover reveal and Raya Golden’s amazing final art without text.  Check out more of Raya’s work and be sure to pre-order your copy today!

Many of you are familiar with the Thousand Worlds and this particular set of short stories as w...

Cooters In Atlanta

This year’s Atlanta Film Festival was held April 20-25 in Atlanta (natch), Georgia.   I was on hand, along with some friends, minions, associates, and, of course, our cooters, to present a special screening of our short film, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS, based on Howard Waldrop’s classic short story.

The film was very well received, I am pleased to report.  (I do wish Howard had been on hand to enjoy the applause, but alas, he’s still in Texas and not able to travel for the present).  Vincent d’Onofri...

Writers On Set

I want to say a few words about what I think is THE most important issue in the current writers’ strike: the so-called “mini rooms” that the Guild is hoping to abolish, and the terrible impact they are having on writers at the start of their careers.

A look at my own career may be instructive.   For the first fourteen years of my career, I wrote only prose; a few novels, and lots of stories for ANALOG, ASIMOV’S, and various other SF magazines and anthologies.   Much as I enjoyed television, I ne...

STRIKE!

The writers’ strike is on.

No one wanted this — no writer with an ounce of sense, anyway — but the producers and the studios and the networks and the streamers gave us no choice.   The Guild negotiated right up to the final deadline on May 1, but it takes two to tango.    In the waning hours of May 1, the Writers Guild of America declared a strike.   The action began on May 2.   There are pickets in front of every studio lot and sound stage in LA, and many in other cities as well.   Get used to ...