The latest Wild Cards book, SUICIDE KINGS, is finished, and has just been delivered to our editor at Tor Books. Look for it in late 2009 or early 2010. For more details, check out the story on my News page.
It’s nice to have that one complete.
Alas, this does not mean my back is monkeyless. Couple more still sitting up there, including King Kong, the dragon monkey. But you guys know about him.
C’mon, ya filthy apes. Let’s all get back to work.
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The gorgeous Subterranean Press limited edition of my historical horror novel FEVRE DREAM was sold out many months ago, or so we thought… but Bill Schafer has just turned up another box of numbered copies, so the book is once again (briefly) available, so long as that supply lasts. It probably won’t be long.
This is a really stunning edition, with some magnificent artwork by Justin Sweet. If you’d like to snag one of these last few copies, order from the SubPress webpage at:
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SP&Product_Code=martin2
And speaking of FEVRE DREAM, my own stock of the first edition Poseidon Press hardcover from 1982, which I’ve been offering autographed on my Signed Books page for, like, forever, is also running low. At this writing fewer than twenty copies remain, so if you want one of them, this is the time to act on that as well.
At $29, these are considerably cheaper than the $125 Subterranean edition, and they are firsts… but what few copies remain, alas, are remainder stamped, and the dustjackets of this last batch are pretty beat up, with various scuffings, tears, scrapes, chips, and the like. Copies are offered as is, so long as they last.
Whether Subterranean or Poseidon, if you want to voyage down into the heart of darkness on the fleet packet steamer Fevre Dream with Abner and Joshua, this is the time to board.
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Page One Bookstore in Albuquerque has scheduled a booksigning for BUSTED FLUSH, the latest Wild Cards mosaic novel from Tor.
The details:
PAGE ONE, 11018 Montgomery Blvd NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Saturday, March 7, 2009
4:00-6:00 pm
This will be a joint signing with John Maddox Roberts, whose new SPQR mystery novel will just have been released. If you haven’t read John’s SPQR books, I recommend them. They’re set in the late Republic, and JMR evokes the time and characters vividly.
On the Wild Cards side, BUSTED FLUSH contributors Melinda M. Snodgrass, Ian Tregillis, John Jos. Miller, Caroline Spector, Walton (Bud) Simons, Carrie Vaughn, and Victor Milan have all confirmed their appearance… so Double Helix, the Genetrix, Carnifex, the Amazing Bubbles, Little Fat Boy, Curveball, and the Radical will all be represented by their creators. And I’ll be there signing too, of course. Several other Wild Carders should also be on hand to kibbitz, so you can get signatures on your INSIDE STRAIGHT paperbacks and even some of the earlier volumes as well.
Page One has promised to have good stocks of the other titles by all of the participating authors, so this will also be a great chance for you to get Carrie Vaughn to sign your Kitty books, Melinda to inscribe your copy of THE EDGE OF REASON, Vic to scrawl in his latest Rogue Angel title, John to autograph the Wild Cards RPG from Green Ronin, etc. And yes, of course, I’ll be glad to sign ICE & FIRE books.
So if you’re in New Mexico or environs that weekend, drop by Page One, meet John Maddox Roberts and the Busted Flushers, get your books defaced, and help support our local independent bookseller.
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Miami Dolphins,
Now that Brett Favre has retired, can we please have Chad Pennington back?
Mike Tannenbaum
New York Jets
Hmmmm. Wonder what Vinnie Testaverde is doing?
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The American Library Association has named HUNTER’S RUN — the three-way collaboration between me, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham — as the outstanding SF novel of the year on their 2009 Reading List:
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/february2009/rusareadinglist.cfm
Got some distinguished company there. We’re all delighted.
I love librarians. Smart, sexy, and they have such good taste in books.
(But who knew that “adrenaline” was a genre?)
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The news is all over the fannish grapevine — Seattle has withdrawn its bid to host the World Science Fiction Convention in 2011. Evidently they lost their facilities.
Reno was their only announced competition for the Seattle bid. Since the filing deadline has passed, and only Seattle and Reno had filed, it looks as though we’ll be going to Reno in 2011.
Works for me. I have never been to Reno, but they have a very experienced veteran committee, and facilities superior to those Seattle was offering, so it should be a good con. (Knock wood. One really never knows about these things).
I am less sanguine about this year’s Montreal worldcon. With their hotels scattered halfway to hell and gone, Montreal will be even more spread out than last year’s Denver con.
Wear comfortable shoes.
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After all the complaints and problems with the calendar, let me take this opportunity to point out that most of the other licensed Ice & Fire products are going just fine, thank you.
Longclaw, for instance, the full-size replica of Jon Snow’s bastard sword, is drawing some rave reviews, and my readers and fans have had nothing but good things to say about the professionalism and customer service of Chris Beasley and his crew at Valyrian Steel. Check out some of the comments for yourself at:
http://www.valyriansteel.com/shop/swords/longclaw-sword-of-jon-snow/prod_2.html
Remember, Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. And nothing says love like Valyrian steel…
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The podcast I did at Cosine weekend before last, up in Colorado Springs, has now been posted at http://www.thacopodcast.com/
Check it out if you’re interested… but be warned, my interviewers run a gaming site, so there were only a few questions about A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, and a whole lot about WILD CARDS, my various games and miniatures and sub-licenses, and like subjects. If you’re interested in that stuff, you might enjoy a listen. If not, well, maybe not so much.
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I've just finished correcting the page proofs of "A Night at the Tarn House," the novelette I wrote for the Jack Vance tribute anthology, SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH. Tomorrow they go back to Subterranean Press, where the book is zooming into production. Appears we're looking at an August pubdate, barring unforeseen schedule changes. The limited editions — both lettered and numbered — are already sold out, but copies of the illustrated trade edition, with its gorgeous Tom Kidd artwork, can still be preordered from the Subterranean website at
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=martin07&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=20
Some writers actually like correcting proofs, I am told. Not me. I've always found it tedious. When the proofs are full of errors, it makes me wonder if I'm missing some of them, and I worry about mistakes sneaking by. When the proofs are clean, that makes me REALLY nervous and I end up going over the same pages several times, searching for the errors that I'm somehow not seeing.
These proofs were pretty clean, by and large, though I caught a few typos… mostly my own. In the old days before computers, most of the mistakes you found when proofreading were ones that had crept in during typesetting. No longer. These days, ninety per cent of the time, when I find a mistake in the text, it is one I made myself.
I'd read three-quarters of 'Tarn House' weekend before last at CoSine in Colorado Springs, but this was the first time I'd gone through the whole thing since mailing it off to my co-editor, Gardner Dozois. It held up pretty well, I thought. No one writes like Jack Vance but Jack Vance, which made this a rather intimidating assignment… but fun as well. Many of the other writers in the book attempted to recreate Vance's unique style, but I was content just to nod in that direction, and try my best to evoke his world and some of his wit. The readers will be the judge of how well I did, but my hope is that the Vance fans out there will enjoy meeting Molloqos, Lirianne, and the Great Chimwazle (whose name is an obscure Howard Waldrop swipe, I blush to confess) as much as I did writing about them.
And besides, you can't imagine how good it feels to have finished something.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
Vance fans will also want to be sure to pick up the Spring issue of Subterranean's online magazine. Gardner Dozois was the guest editor for the issue, which will feature — among other treats — one of the other stories from SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH: "Sylgarmo's Proclamation," by Lucius Shepard. Consider it an appetizer.
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Les Dabel writes:
“I am on it right now. It looks like within 7 to 10 business days all this should be cleared up. I am also waiting for the extra copies from Quebecor so I can send to you to sign. The packages for these 250 copies have already been put together. So once we receive them from you we will send them right out.”
And once I receive them, I will announce it here.
In another email, Les says:
“The worst problem we’ve had is the international orders. Because the packages were under 1 pound we were told that we did not need custom forms filled out with the packages. Well they were incorrect even though the packages were under 1 pound they were slightly larger than a package that did not require a customs form. I’ve received pretty much everyone of the international orders back. I’ve been resending them out with the custom forms. I was doing a great job responding to people emailing us about their calendars up until last week when I pulled a back muscle from carrying boxes and was out for pretty much the whole week. This weekend I’ve been emailing the customers and updating them and making sure replacements are being sent.”
Anyway… I am hopeful that we are on our way to getting the problems fixed, and that within a couple of weeks (perhaps longer for the overseas orders) everyone who paid for a calendar will have one.
(That’s February, by the way. Jon Snow was January).
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