And for what it is worth, WILD CARDS had a hell of a year in 2018.<\/p>\n
We published not one, not two, but three<\/em><\/strong> new original mosaic novels in the series:\u00a0 LOW CHICAGO came out in June and TEXAS HOLD ‘EM in November, both in the US, while KNAVES OVER QUEENS was a June release in the UK.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know any other contending series that put out three new books last year.\u00a0 And while I am admittedly far from objective, those three books rank among the strongest volumes in the history of the series.\u00a0\u00a0 I am very proud of them, and the fans seemed to love them too.<\/p>\n That’s not all, however.\u00a0\u00a0 We re-released one of the old books too: ONE-EYED JACKS, volume eight from the original series, was released in August, after decades of being out of print.\u00a0\u00a0 But it was not a straight reprint.\u00a0\u00a0 We also added two brand new stories to the original text, a Magpie story by Kevin Andrew Murphy and a tale of Lady Black from Carrie Vaughn.<\/p>\n In addition, we had three brand-new stand-alone Wild Cards stories published over on Tor.com:<\/p>\n — “EverNight,” by Victor Milan, published in February, That’s a huge amount of original Wild Cards content.\u00a0\u00a0 If you haven’t tried any of it, you should.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s some great stuff there.\u00a0\u00a0 I am a lucky editor, and I’ve assembled an amazing team of writers in Wild Cards.<\/p>\n And 2018 was our thirty-first year.\u00a0\u00a0 We now have twenty-seven volumes in print, with three more in the pipeline… and probably a lot more to come, especially if the TV shows take off on Hulu.\u00a0\u00a0 No other series comes close.<\/p>\n I hope the Hugo nominators will agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have seen here and there that some people are suggesting A SONG OF ICE & FIRE (by that name, or as GAME OF THRONES) as a possible nominee for the new(ish) Best Series category of the Hugo Awards.\u00a0\u00a0 It fits worldcon’s very broad definition of a series, I agree… but as I said below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[29,39,37,7,40],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/503792_900-e1550431233458.jpg\")
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\n—\u00a0 “The Flight of Morpho Girl,” by Caroline Spector and Bradley Denton, published in April,
\n—\u00a0 “Fitting In,” by Max Gladstone, published in November.<\/p>\n