{"id":309,"date":"2016-10-26T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-06-26T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:51:28","slug":"the-cards-get-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2016\/10\/26\/the-cards-get-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cards Get Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some cool new stuff to announce for you Wild Cards fans out there.<\/p>\n<p>We have a couple of brand new original never-before-published Wild Cards coming up on Tor.com, and available for free.   The first of them is &#8220;The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown,&#8221; by Carrie Vaughn, a prequel of sorts to FORT FREAK, featuring two of your favorite 5th precinct joker cops as teenagers.   John Picacio just sent us the cover art, and as usual it&#8217;s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/395328_900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Carrie&#8217;s story will be uploaded to Tor.com on <i><b>December 21<\/b><\/i>.  Hope you&#8217;ll enjoy the read.  (I did).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on other Wild Card-ish fronts&#8230; Tor taped hours of interview with myself and a whole legion of my Wild Cards writers in Kansas City, during the big launch event for HIGH STAKES, and will be releasing them in a series of videos.   The first came out in late August.   The second has just been released.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;844&#8243;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>More videos will be forthcoming in future months.<\/p>\n<p>HIGH STAKES is available now from your favorite local bookstore and online bookseller.  And if you&#8217;re an autograph hound, we do have copies at the Jean Cocteau Bookshop with signatures from Melinda Snodgrass, John Jos. Miller, Ian Tregillis, and yours truly.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeancocteaubooks.com\/bookstore\/high-stakes-wild-cards\/\">http:\/\/www.jeancocteaubooks.com\/bookstore\/high-stakes-wild-cards\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some cool new stuff to announce for you Wild Cards fans out there. We have a couple of brand new original never-before-published Wild Cards coming up on Tor.com, and available for free. The first of them is &#8220;The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown,&#8221; by Carrie Vaughn, a prequel of sorts to FORT FREAK, featuring [&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":[28,37,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}