{"id":1810,"date":"2013-04-19T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2017-09-08T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:50:21","slug":"golden-boy-comes-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/04\/19\/golden-boy-comes-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Boy Comes to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Brazilian publisher LeYa is moving like lightning in their plans to bring the entire Wild Cards saga to my fans in Brazil (and Roger Zelazny&#8217;s fans and Howard Waldrop&#8217;s fans and Carrie Vaughn&#8217;s fans and Daniel Abraham&#8217;s fans and Walter Jon Williams&#8217;s fans and the fans of the other thirty-odd writers who have been and continue to be a part of Wild Cards).<\/p>\n<p>LeYa has hired the amazing Marc Simonetti to paint the covers for their editions.  Marc&#8217;s work is well known to my Ice &#038; Fire readers, of course, since he did this year&#8217;s official Ice &#038; Fire calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cover of the first volume of the Brazilian WILD CARDS, featuring Jack Braun, aka Golden Boy, the strongest man in the Wild Cards universe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/165058_300.jpg\" alt=\"WILD_cards_title\" title=\"WILD_cards_title\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen Marc&#8217;s roughs for the covers of ACES HIGH and JOKERS WILD, and those are pretty cool as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fun addendum.  Marc has uploaded of video of the process of bringing Golden Boy to life:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jeWdRyXXf18 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Brazilian publisher LeYa is moving like lightning in their plans to bring the entire Wild Cards saga to my fans in Brazil (and Roger Zelazny&#8217;s fans and Howard Waldrop&#8217;s fans and Carrie Vaughn&#8217;s fans and Daniel Abraham&#8217;s fans and Walter Jon Williams&#8217;s fans and the fans of the other thirty-odd writers who have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}