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? LiveJournal Find more YOUR 2019 IN LJ Communities RSS Reader Shop YOUR 2019 IN LJ Help Login Login CREATE BLOG Join English (en) English (en) Русский (ru) Українська (uk) Français (fr) Português (pt) español (es) Deutsch (de) Italiano (it) Беларуская (be) grrm — Subscribe Readability Log in No account? Create an account Remember me Forgot password Log in Log in Facebook Twitter Google No account? Create an account Recent Entries Archive Friends Profile Memories Not A Blog Previous 10 NOT A BLOG IS MOVING AWAY... Apr. 13th, 2018 at 10:55 AM grrm Greetings all, Minion Raya here to let you know that we're moving the Not A Blog to a whole new location! So if you're looking for the latest news from GRRM hop on over to the website and check out the new Not a Blog: http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ ****This message has been brought to you by the Minions of Fevre River**** Leave a comment Share Flag Link Cover Boy Apr. 6th, 2018 at 7:16 PM grrm Hot damn. I'm a cover boy. An ESQUIRE cover boy! (On the Chinese edition of ESQUIRE) Some fun pictures inside as well. And lots of text I cannot read. Those of you who can read Chinese... enjoy. Current Location: Santa Fe Current Mood: amused Tags: interviews Share Flag Link From Terra to Taos Apr. 3rd, 2018 at 11:20 PM grrm (Actually, the Toolbox is now in Angel Fire, but Taos works better with Terran). Walter Jon Williams has picked the recipient of the first Terran Prize, the scholarship I am offering to bring writers from overseas to our Land of Enchantment. Here's his official press release: The 2018 Terran Prize, founded by George R.R. Martin and consisting of a full tuition scholarship to the Taos Toolbox master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy, has been awarded to Joey Yu. Joey Yu was born in Taipei, educated in Vancouver, and now works in Shanghai as a freelance creator. He is the author of several novels published in China, including The Sunlight Trilogy of futuristic fantasy novels, The Mirrored Truth, and The Locus, which won the Excellence Award of the Taiwan Fantasy Foundation. Joey has also written indie comics, mobile games and is the co-author, with Dr. Weiru Chen, of the nonfiction bestseller Platform Strategy, about the internet era and the evolution of business models. Joey says, "I believe storytelling--- the science and art of developing immersive metaphors and symbolism--- is an important way (maybe the only way)--- to bridge cultures and inspire empathy. In all met works I talk about the importance of unlocking an individual's potential through challenging and reshaping the system." Taos Toolbox will take place over two weeks this June in Angel Fire, New Mexico, and will be taught by award-winning writer Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams, along with guests speakers Carrie Vaughn, George RR Martin, and E.M. Tippetts. Current Location: Rocjy Mountain High Current Mood: pleased Tags: workshops , writing Share Flag Link Hugo Nominations Announced Mar. 31st, 2018 at 6:54 PM grrm The San Jose Worldcon has announced this year's list of nominations for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award. LOCUS has the full list of finalists at: http://locusmag.com/2018/03/2018-hugo-and-campbell-awards-finalists/ The Hugo is the oldest and most prestigious award in SF and fantasy. If you want your voice to be heard, there's still plenty of time to join the San Jose Worldcon and cast your vote. There's Attending memberships, if you actually plan to attend, and Supporting memberships, if you can't, but either way you get a Hugo ballot. Congratulations to all the nominees. Some of you will carry home a silver rocket come August. More of you will be Hugo Losers, but that's almost as good. (I've lost lots of them myself). Sad to say, Wild Cards did not get any love this year (sob)... but I was very pleased to see that our Wild Cards editor, Diana Pho, is one of the finalists for Best Professional Editor. You go, Diana. Win it for Jetboy! Current Location: The Misty Mountains Current Mood: contemplative Tags: awards , hugo awards , wild cards , worldcon Share Flag Link Yowza Mar. 26th, 2018 at 5:49 PM grrm Hiya, kids, hiya, hiya. Never mind The Count. Here's counting the Gremlin's Way. OFF WE GO! Even better! Ooops, ouch, ouch ouch ouch. Bing bang boom! One for all and all for one. The dragon has three heads. Plunk your magic twangers. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. Current Location: The Lonely Mountain Current Mood: amused Tags: television Share Flag Link Coming In October Mar. 24th, 2018 at 12:42 PM grrm This is going to be an epic year for all you Wild Cards fans out there. Let's see. In June we have LOW CHICAGO, coming out from Tor in the US, and KNAVES OVER QUEENS, scheduled for release from Voyager in the UK. But that's not the end of it. On October 23, look for TEXAS HOLD 'EM. TEXAS HOLD 'EM is the final book in the America Triad, and the twenty-seventh volume of the overall series... but no, it's not necessary to have read the first twenty-six to enjoy this one. In fact, it's not even necessary to have read MISSISSIPPI ROLL and LOW CHICAGO (though we hope you will). The table of contents: Caroline Spector "Bubbles and the Band Trip" Max Gladstone "The Secret Life of Rubberband" William F. Wu "Jade Blossom's Brew" Diana Rowland "Beats, Bugs, and Boys" Walton Simons "Is Nobody Going to San Antone?" Victor Milan "Dust and the Darkness" David Anthony Durham "Drop City" That gorgeous cover is by Michael Komarck, who has been doing stunning work for Wild Cards since Tor relaunched the series. I hope you guys remembered to nominate him for a Hugo, he certainly deserves one. (And I hope to remembered to nominate Wild Cards for Best Series too. Thirty-one years, twenty-seven books, we're all pretty proud of the work we've done, and will continue to do). TEXAS HOLD 'EM is available for preorder now. On other Wild Cards fronts, check out the latest post on the WC blog at http://www.wildcardsworld.com/blog/ where Miss Wild Cards answers your questions. And keep an eye out for new Wild Cards stories over at Tor.com. If you haven't read Vic Milan's "EverNight" yet, you should... and we have new original WC tales coming up from Caroline Spector and Bradley Denton, Max Gladstone, and Marko Kloos. All FREE! Current Location: Hidden Fortress Current Mood: satisfied Tags: anthologies , artwork , wild cards Share Flag Link NIGHTFLYERS Trailer Debuts Mar. 21st, 2018 at 12:34 PM grrm SyFy has rolled out the first trailer for the NIGHTFLYERS tv series, scheduled to debut this fall. Check it out: I am amused to see my own appearances in the promo. SyFy sent a film crew to Santa Fe last month, and we spent most of an afternoon taping a long interview about "Nightflyers," its inspiration and publication history, my Thousand Worlds, horror v SF v hyrbids, and so on. I hope at some point they will use some of that material, beyond the two sentences that made it into the trailer. Very cool to see the show coming together. Current Location: that would be telling Current Mood: curious Tags: horror , science fiction , television Share Flag Link The British Are Coming! Mar. 12th, 2018 at 8:47 PM grrm The British are coming! The British are coming!! The British Wild Cards, that is. Aces, jokers, deuces, and a few knaves too. Oh, and an Irish guy as well. They will be here on June 28. That's when HarperCollins Voyager has scheduled the hardcover release of the latest Wild Cards anthology, KNAVES OVER QUEENS, edited by yours truly (with the able assistance of Melinda M. Snodgrasss, as usual) and featuring all new stories by veteran Wild Carders Kevin Andrew Murphy, Caroline Spector, Melinda Snodgrass, Paul Cornell, and Marko Stross and newcomers Charlie Stross, Peter Newman, Emma Newman, Mark Lawrence, and Peadar O Gulian. The one is something new for Wild Cards: the first time that the British edition of one of the books will be published in advance of the American edition. But it's only fitting in ...