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Howard Meets Hercules

For all you Howard Waldrop fans out there… if you enjoyed our short films, the adaptations of MARY-MARGARET ROAD-GRADER, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS, and THE UGLY CHICKENS that we’ve been showing at film festivals over the past couple of years, we have big news a-coming.   A Waldrop feature is on the way.  All animated, from Lion Forge.

It’s an adaptation of Howard’s novella A DOZEN TOUGH JOBS, his  take on the Twelve Labors of Hercules.   Joe Lansdale, the Sage of Nacogdoches, father of Hap and Leonar...

Me and Joe Down at the Kimo

Joe Abercrombie has a new novel out: THE DEVILS, volume one in his latest fantasy trilogy.

Joe has crossed the pond to the US on a promotional tour, and one of his first stops was the historic Kimo Theatre in downtown Albuquerque, where I had the privilege of sitting down with him for an hour to talk writing, reading, fantasy, fandom, and all manner of other stuff.   We answered a few questions from the audience as well.

Joe is a terrific writer and an even better guest.

We had a lot of fun, an...

Three Rockets From Miami

The Miami Science Fiction Film Festival was held January 18-19, down in Florida (natch).    Mike Cassutt and I were there…  we had a series of meetings that week, and we’d enetered MARY-MARGARET ROAD-GRADER in the festival.

The film was well received, as I reported downstream in my post about the festival.   We came away with four awards.   Steven Paul Judd took two of them; he took Best Director, and also won the prestigious Russell Bates Award.   MARY-MARGARET also won honors for its costuming...

Meet the Pack

Rudyard Kipling said it way back when, in THE JUNGLE BOOK, in a poem called “The Law of the Jungle.”

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back —
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Ned Stark echoed those words in A GAME OF THRONES. “When the snows fall and the w...

Gray Alys and Howard Waldrop

Gray Alys has come to the internet.

IN THE LOST LANDS, the film adaptation of my short story by the same name, had its premiere at my Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe on February 8, but if you missed it in the theatres,  you can now catch it on streaming, where it opened April 8.    Paul W.S. Anderson, of RESIDENT EVIL and MONSTER HUNTER fame, directed the movie, from a screenplay by Constantin Werner.  Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista starred.

The story was one of my earliest fantasies, original...

D-Day Comes Early

I promised an exciting announcement in that last blog post of mine, the one I wrote last night that went up this morning on my Not A Blog.  Big news coming on April 8, I said, and no, it was not going to be the delivery of THE WINDS OF WINTER, don’t go there, had nothing to do with that.  But it was going to be something very cool, something astonishing.

That part was right.  Only the date was wrong.  Colossal Biosciences, out of Dallas, had it all lined up so the story would break on April 8, ...

Rolling Rolling Rolling

I’m glad that I was finally able to blog about worldcon and the Alfies.   We got back from Europe in the middle of August, and it was my original hope to have that one up by the end of the month.   HOO HA!  Too much trip, too little time.

And a lot has been going on since then.

IN THE LOST LANDS, adapted from my 1972 Grey Alys story, was released on March 7.   We had a full house at the Jean Cocteau for the premiere.   I’ve heard that it will hit streaming on April 8, but I don’t know if that da...

A Scottish Worldcon

We spent a month across the pond last summer, from July 15 to August 15.   We started in Belfast and environs, where A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS was being filmed.  From there we went on to Amsterdam, where I paid a call on my Dutch publisher, and then London to call on Jane Johnson and the good folks at Voyager, my UK publisher.  Oxford was next.  The Oxford Writers House had invited me to deliver a talk on fantasy with Philip Pullman, the author of HIS DARK MATERIALS.  I was really looking f...

Lord Jago Wants You

Lord Jago Branok is having a party at Loveday House.

Truth be told, he has a party every month.  No two are ever the same.  But nothing is ever the same at Loveday, his lordship’s rambling mysterious (some say haunted) manse, perched on the cliffs overlooking the sea on Keun Island, off the Atlantic coast of Cornwall.  It’s a queer place, Keun,.  Three miles of mudflats and an ancient stone causeway connect the rocky island to the Cornish mainland during low tide, but when the tide comes roaring...

On the Festival Circuit

This is not your occasional message from George or the minions of Fevre River, but a new addition to the team – I’m Michael Cassutt, writer of fiction, non-fiction, lots of television (TWILIGHT ZONE, MAX HEADROOM, EERIE INDIANA, more recently THE DEAD ZONE and Z-NATION).  Since October I’ve been working with George as his “creative director,” helping to shape and advance non-HBO TV, film and game projects and even some publishing. (No, I’m not “helping” George with his writing.)

Last spring and ...