happyIt's always been my feeling, however, that any long-running series risks growing stagnant after awhile unless it's freshened up from time to time... and the best way to do that is by regularly adding new characters, new concepts, new conflicts... new writers. Wild Cards has had a long tradition of dragging new inmates into the asylum (some of them kicking and screaming). Over the years, the original founding members of the Wild Cards consortium were joined by others: William F. Wu, Michael Cassutt, Chris Claremont, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Bob Wayne, Laura J. Mixon, Sage Walker, Daniel Abraham... and most recently the Class of 2007, made up of Caroline Spector, Christopher Rowe, Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, and S.L. Farrell.
Renewal is a never-ending process, however. With SUICIDE KINGS in the pipeline and the Committee triad wrapped up, the time was ideal to go out and recruit some more poor damned fools for the Wild Cards projects to come (which I can't talk about, not just yet, but watch this space, we'll have news for you soon).
So let me introduce all you Wild Cards fans (and those who aren't yet, but soon will be) to the Wild Cards Class of 2009.
DAVID D. LEVINE
David is the Hugo-winnning author of "Tk'tk'tk'" and many other fine short stories, a graduate of Clarion West and the Writers of the Future contest, a Nebula and Campbell Award loser, hailing from Portland, Oregon.
CHERIE PRIEST
"Southern gothic historical horror fantasy" is as close as I can come to describing Cherie's work. She was born in Tampa and schooled in Chattanooga, but lives in Seattle at present. She's also an associate editor for Subterranean Press.
MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ
Born in Sri Lanka, Mary Anne presently lives in Chicago (my old stomping grounds), where she's a Ph.D. candidate. She's written novels and short stories, edited anthologies and a Hugo-nominated ezine. Her work includes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, erotica, even a cookbook.
DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM
A two-time Campbell Award nominee for Best New Writer, David has written both fantasy (ACACIA) and historical novels (THE PRIDE OF CARTHAGE). He lives in Fresno, but he's getting out as soon as he can.
PAUL CORNELL
Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and comic book scripter, Paul comes to us from England, where he's written episodes of DR. WHO and TORCHWOOD. He's currently scripting Captain Britain and MI-13 for Marvel Comics.
I could tell you about their cool new characters as well... but I'd rather make you wait and meet them in the books. But we're all excited to have them aboard, and we expect they'll make some great contributions to the future of Wild Cards.
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