{"id":7090,"date":"2021-07-26T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2021-07-26T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:27:48","slug":"new-wild-cards-original-on-tor-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/07\/26\/new-wild-cards-original-on-tor-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wild Cards original on Tor.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a brand new Wild Cards original from a brand new Wild Cards author up on Tor.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Skin Deep&#8221; is from Alan Brennert. \u00a0 Who is <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> a new author at all, of course (( though he was back in the mid-70s, when he was a Campbell Award loser just a few years after me )) but he <em>IS<\/em> brand new to the world of aces and jokers.\u00a0\u00a0 I first had the honor of publishing Alan when I was doing NEW VOICES, the Campbell Award anthology that was my first foray into editing.\u00a0 A decade or so later, he and I worked together when I got my first gig writing for television, and he helped teach me how to write a teleplay.\u00a0\u00a0 In more recent years he has been writing novels &#8212; his bestselling Hawaii series, and a really wonderful book about Palisades Park in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>So go and check out &#8220;Skin Deep&#8221; on Tor.com. \u00a0 It&#8217;s FREE.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Zl5NjWeHyk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2021\/07\/21\/skin-deep-alan-brennert\/\">Skin Deep<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Skin Deep&#8221; &#8212; Tor.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2021\/07\/21\/skin-deep-alan-brennert\/embed\/#?secret=Zl5NjWeHyk\" data-secret=\"Zl5NjWeHyk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And after you&#8217;ve enjoyed &#8220;Skin Deep,&#8221; go check out the rest of the Wild Cards stories on Tor.com, and pick up a couple of Wild Cards books from your favorite bookseller.. along with a few of Alan&#8217;s novels.\u00a0\u00a0 They&#8217;re terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a brand new Wild Cards original from a brand new Wild Cards author up on Tor.com. &#8220;Skin Deep&#8221; is from Alan Brennert. \u00a0 Who is not a new author at all, of course (( though he was back in the mid-70s, when he was a Campbell Award loser just a few years after me [&hellip;]<\/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":[47,11,37,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090"}],"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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}