HIGH STAKES will be out later this year, as previously announced. That's the third and concluding volume in what we've come to call our "mean streets and madness" triad, and the twenty-third volume in the overall series (which originally began way way back in 1987). It was also the last new volume under contract to Tor.



But no longer! Wild Cards will fight another day. Tor has just stepped up and signed us for three more originals. This set we will be calling (informally) "the USA Triad." But it won't really be a triad, more like three stand-alones, each with its own setting, cast, and tone.
The three new books are:
TEXAS HOLD 'EM
MISSISSIPPI ROLL
LOW CHICAGO
Details? Sorry. You'll need to wait for those. The ink on the contracts is not quite dry yet, so we're just getting up to steam (as in MISSISSIPPI... no, that would be telling).



This much I can tell you. I'll be editing the new volumes, natch. Melinda Snodgrass will continue as my assistant editor and right hand woman. And we'll be calling on the madman and wild women of the Wild Cards consortium for stories, as ever. Whenever we begin a new triad and a new contract, however, we like to reach out and recruit a few new writers. Fresh blood is just so tasty, and adding some new characters to the mix always helps to enliven things.
So let me introduce you to our Class of 2016. The newest inmates in the asylum are:
SALADIN AHMED
MAX GLADSTONE
MARKO KLOOS
DIANA ROWLAND
They're all insanely talented, and they claim they play well with others (we'll see). And no, I won't tell you about the new characters they've created for us... but we think you're going to like them.
WILD CARDS! From 1987 to forever....
((And if you have not caught the virus yet, there's still time. Head over to the Jean Cocteau Bookshop at http://www.jeancocteaubooks.com/ and you'll find all sorts of signed Wild Cards books on sale, some of them with multiple autographs from editors and writers both).




[[Comments welcome. On Wild Cards only, please. Stay on topic]].
← Ctrl ← Alt
Ctrl → Alt →
March 11 2016, 00:52:10 UTC 4 years ago
March 11 2016, 01:33:11 UTC 4 years ago
March 11 2016, 01:33:27 UTC 4 years ago
March 11 2016, 01:36:45 UTC 4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
March 11 2016, 02:13:32 UTC 4 years ago
March 11 2016, 06:52:45 UTC 4 years ago
In any case, Wild Cards is a trust. I am the editor and trustee, not the owner. If I should die or retire, a new editor and trustee would be voted in by the members.
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
Saladin Ahmed!!!
March 11 2016, 03:03:51 UTC 4 years ago
The Name of the Rose
March 11 2016, 03:40:42 UTC 4 years ago
RE: The Name of the Rose
March 11 2016, 04:09:34 UTC 4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
Re: The Name of the Rose
4 years ago
March 11 2016, 06:28:19 UTC 4 years ago
Copyright permission
March 11 2016, 08:42:38 UTC 4 years ago
Please contact me in nachocooper@gmail.com and I will be glad to send you all the details.
Thanks, I love your work!!
Re: Copyright permission
March 11 2016, 21:21:38 UTC 4 years ago
Audiobook Version???
March 11 2016, 16:47:45 UTC 4 years ago
new to wild cards
March 11 2016, 19:01:16 UTC 4 years ago
I just got done with the first two books and they are freaking fantastic. To anyone who's like "do I really want to delve into another huge universe with multiple authors?" Yes. You do.
I remember you saying something about some of these books being on audiobooks, how is that coming along? Audiobooks are a savior for someone who doesn't always have time to sit down with a book.
Re: new to wild cards
March 11 2016, 21:23:20 UTC 4 years ago
The audibooks of volumes one and two came out years ago, from Brilliance Audio. A single reader.
Random House Audio has since picked up the series. Future volumes will have a mosaic of readers. Books three and four are in the can, and book five is being recorded even as we speak.
See some of my posts downstream for the casts.
Re: new to wild cards
4 years ago
Re: new to wild cards
4 years ago
March 11 2016, 20:37:57 UTC 4 years ago
March 12 2016, 06:58:21 UTC 4 years ago
So did a lot of other readers, I confess.
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
March 12 2016, 00:08:39 UTC 4 years ago
I've read every single one of the published books, and they're awesome (yeah, I love even the dark and despairing Jumper books that many people like to complain about).
It's interesting that you got Saladin Ahmed now. One of the complaints I've heard about Wild Cards was the accusation of "Orientalism", on account of the Islamic villains in some of the novels. I don't agree with the accusation, and I think that having an Islamic Fundamentalist as a major villain in 1987 was indeed prophetic.
But the addition of an Arab-American writer to the fold is great. I hope we'll get to see some Islamic heroes, for balance.
March 12 2016, 20:23:43 UTC 4 years ago
As for the Islamic Fundamentalist villains, I should point out that our long list of villains also includes Roman Catholic Fundamentalists, Evangelical Protestant Fundamentalists, Soviet communists, greedy capitalists, aliens from space, different aliens from space, Third World dictators, Freemasons (Egyptian Rite), corrupt cops, misguided idealists, sadistic teenagers, sadistic senators, leftist revolutionaries, right-wing reactionaries, would-be world conquerers, lying lawyers, amoral television executives, a couple of undead, a vampire of sorts, and most recently a dark god from another dimension.
With twenty-three books under our belts, and three more to come, our appetite for villainy is voracious.
(But we do try for a certain level of nuance, though I will not claim that we have already succeeded).
4 years ago
March 12 2016, 16:26:41 UTC 4 years ago
March 12 2016, 20:08:58 UTC 4 years ago
Mysticon
March 13 2016, 01:26:44 UTC 4 years ago
March 13 2016, 04:40:12 UTC 4 years ago
March 13 2016, 18:08:15 UTC 4 years ago
We'll return to the triad format with subsequent contracts. The next two are already in the planning stages.
← Ctrl ← Alt
Ctrl → Alt →