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I am thrilled to announce that DARK WINDS has won a second Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, for the best television drama of 2024.  This is the second year in a row that DARK WINDS has taken the prize.

The winning episode was “Hozho nahasdlii (Beauty is Restored),” the finale from our second season, shown last spring on AMC and AMC+.   Chris Eyre directed,  from a script penned by John Wirth and Graham Roland, based on the novel PEOPLE OF DARK...

You’ve been clamoring for a new trailer for season two of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON.

MAX heard you.   They’ve delivered two of them.   A green trailer, and a black trailer.

All men must choose!

What team are you?  Black or green>

Howard Waldrop is gone, but his work will live on.

We’ve completed work on two more short films, based on a couple of Howard’s best stories (he wrote so many, it was very hard to choose).

You can find the trailer for MARY-MARGARET ROAD GRADER several posts down.

And here’s the latest one, an adaptation of Howard’s most famous story, THE UGLY CHICKENS.  Winner of the Nebula.   Winner of the World Fantasy Award.   Nominee for the Hugo, but, alas, not a winner.   A pity, that.  Howard never won a H...

Exciting news for all the Wild Cards fans out there.  Today is the publication day for the newest Wild Cards hardcover from Bantam, the thirty-third volume in the overall series… but no, you do not need to have read the first thirty-two to enjoy this book.

SLEEPER STRADDLE is the title.   And yes, as our long-time readers will no doubt guess, this one features a character who has been around since the first Wild Cards Day (September 15, 1946 — the day  Howard Waldrop was born):  the Sleeper, cre...

Howard Waldrop had a new book out last year:  H’ARD STARTS: THE EARLY WALDROP, from Subterranean Press.   Brad Denton and I put it together.  It was a collection of Howard’s earliest work — the stories he wrote for comic book fanzines in the 60s and early 70s, some plays from college, con reports, articles from CRAWDADDY, a sketch he wrote for Red Skelton (Red passed), sword and sorcery in the mode of Robert E. Howard, science fiction in the mode of Cordwainer Smith, and his earliest pro work, i...

In years past, I would often do a Not A Blog post on or about New Year’s, looking back over the year that was ending and ahead to the year to come.   This year, though, as I reflected on the year we had just lived through, I found I had no appetite for living through any of that again.   2023 was a nightmare of a year, for the world and the nation and for me and mine, both professionally and personally.   I am very glad that it is over.

Unfortunately, so far 2024 looks to be even worse.

There is...

My readers sometimes astonish me.

And never more than last week, when the baker and chocolatier  at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort left a surprise for Parris and me in our suite:  an amazing replica of the throne of the Seven Kingdoms as seen on GAME OF THRONES.

Instead of iron, however, this throne was made entirely of CHOCOLATE.

It was, it must be said, a helluva throne, and every bit as delicious as it was imposing.

The dragon was cool too, and he actually breathed fire.

The throne was so la...

2025 Calendar Featuring Eddie Mendoza!

From Skagos to Qarth, the Water Gardens to the Nightfort, journey across Westeros and Essos with artist Eddie Mendoza, who brings us both new takes on some of the classic series locations as well as never-before-seen locales.  With thirteen stunning illustrations, including a bonus fold-out poster, experience the full majesty and sweeping vistas of the Seven Kingdoms and Essos.

Preorders will be available soon but for now we will leave you with the cover o...

I sold my first story and attended my first science fiction convention in 1971.   It was a Disclave, in Washington D.C.

I appeared on my first panel five years later, at a Windycon.   By that time I had published a score of stories, lost the Campbell Award, lost two Nebulas and a Hugo… and won a Hugo.   It was not easy to get on panels in those days.  You had to pay your dues.

Subsequently I have appeared on dozens, if not hundreds, of panels, at more cons than I can count.   Some were fun and s...