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Gray Alys has come to the internet.

IN THE LOST LANDS, the film adaptation of my short story by the same name, had its premiere at my Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe on February 8, but if you missed it in the theatres,  you can now catch it on streaming, where it opened April 8.    Paul W.S. Anderson, of RESIDENT EVIL and MONSTER HUNTER fame, directed the movie, from a screenplay by Constantin Werner.  Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista starred.

The story was one of my earliest fantasies, original...

I promised an exciting announcement in that last blog post of mine, the one I wrote last night that went up this morning on my Not A Blog.  Big news coming on April 8, I said, and no, it was not going to be the delivery of THE WINDS OF WINTER, don’t go there, had nothing to do with that.  But it was going to be something very cool, something astonishing.

That part was right.  Only the date was wrong.  Colossal Biosciences, out of Dallas, had it all lined up so the story would break on April 8, ...

I’m glad that I was finally able to blog about worldcon and the Alfies.   We got back from Europe in the middle of August, and it was my original hope to have that one up by the end of the month.   HOO HA!  Too much trip, too little time.

And a lot has been going on since then.

IN THE LOST LANDS, adapted from my 1972 Grey Alys story, was released on March 7.   We had a full house at the Jean Cocteau for the premiere.   I’ve heard that it will hit streaming on April 8, but I don’t know if that da...

We spent a month across the pond last summer, from July 15 to August 15.   We started in Belfast and environs, where A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS was being filmed.  From there we went on to Amsterdam, where I paid a call on my Dutch publisher, and then London to call on Jane Johnson and the good folks at Voyager, my UK publisher.  Oxford was next.  The Oxford Writers House had invited me to deliver a talk on fantasy with Philip Pullman, the author of HIS DARK MATERIALS.  I was really looking f...

Lord Jago Branok is having a party at Loveday House.

Truth be told, he has a party every month.  No two are ever the same.  But nothing is ever the same at Loveday, his lordship’s rambling mysterious (some say haunted) manse, perched on the cliffs overlooking the sea on Keun Island, off the Atlantic coast of Cornwall.  It’s a queer place, Keun,.  Three miles of mudflats and an ancient stone causeway connect the rocky island to the Cornish mainland during low tide, but when the tide comes roaring...

This is not your occasional message from George or the minions of Fevre River, but a new addition to the team – I’m Michael Cassutt, writer of fiction, non-fiction, lots of television (TWILIGHT ZONE, MAX HEADROOM, EERIE INDIANA, more recently THE DEAD ZONE and Z-NATION).  Since October I’ve been working with George as his “creative director,” helping to shape and advance non-HBO TV, film and game projects and even some publishing. (No, I’m not “helping” George with his writing.)

Last spring and ...

This is not your occasional message from George or the minions of Fevre River, but a new addition to the team – I’m Michael Cassutt, writer of fiction, non-fiction, lots of television (TWILIGHT ZONE, MAX HEADROOM, EERIE INDIANA, more recently THE DEAD ZONE and Z-NATION).  Since October I’ve been working with George as his “creative director,” helping to shape and advance non-HBO TV, film and game projects and even some publishing. (No, I’m not “helping” George with his writing.)

Last spring and...

We have a cover for the illustrated edition of the fourth book in my A Song of Ice and Fire series! This gorgeous, illustrated edition of A Feast for Crows will be arriving on shelves November 4.

The special edition of A Feast for Crows features 24 original color illustrations from artist Jeffrey R. McDonald and a special foreword by Joe Abercrombie.

After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. But it’s not long before the...

The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 by  the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, to honor the year’s best work in genre television, film, and home entertainment.   They have been given annually ever since.  This year’s  year’s awards ceremony, the 52nd, was held in the Hilton Universal City in Los Angeles, on February 2.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON had three finalists in the television division.

EMMA D’ARCY was nominated as Best Actress in a Televsion Series, and MATT SMITH for Best...

Where does the time go?  January went by in a flash.  I had a lot of posts I wanted to make, a lot of things I wanted to say,  I had writing to do, I had zooming to do, meetings to attend, I had scripts to read, notes to give.  There was travel, some for business and some for fun.  There were friends to mourn, books to blurb.  I saw a few good movies and television shows, that gave me some pleasure.  The NFL did not.  I missed most of the games this season, but that was probably a good thing, si...