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Tor Books’ official Wild Cards page has launched. It looks farkin’ great, and navigates well, which is all-important (too often “good” web design involves gloss interfering with usability, if not making navigation utterly impossible.)
I admit I’m less than enamored with use of Javascript pop-ups for images. But that’s a mere nerble. It’s a handsome job, and should become the indispensable go-to site on the Web for all things Wild Card.
None of the info I’ve provided on me or my characters (to date, Tripsie, his “friends,” and Mordecai Jones, the Harlem Hammer) has yet appeared. That’s no issue, as far as I’m concerned; obviously it makes sense for Tor – and us, for that matter – to concentrate on pimping the upcoming release, Inside Straight, due out January 22nd. Don’t forget to pre-order your copy (and many more as presents for friends and loved ones, plus one to stash away in plastic for the benefit of future generations!) right here
But wait – there’s more.
The folks at Tor have rather suavely and sagaciously opened up a fan art gallery. As I write this – about 4:21 PM on Saturday, December 15th, 2007 – there’s nothing there. You -yes, you – can help remedy that sad but doubtless temporary situation by sending your WC-related artwork to publicity[at]tor.com.
It doesn’t have to come from the new book – difficult in any case unless you’ve got a time machine. You can base your pictures on any character or incident from the whole illustrious history of the series. Heck, feel free to send copy of any pictures you feel moved to do that relate to my characters or yarns to me and I’ll post ‘em.
Indeed, I’ll likely be making some contributions of my own. George recently reminded me that back in the days of our original Superworld campaign, I did a number of sketches, both using the little humanoid templates on the character sheets and freehand, of my and other players’ characters, as well as subsidiary artwork. If I recall correctly they were distinctly not bad; though I’m seriously out of practice I’m a fair artist when I put my hand to it.
The hitch is whether I can find them. They’re not in my Superworld box. Likely they’re in with tons of other material from back when I ran my own role-playing campaigns (and dinosaurs walked the Earth.*) Which, it occurs to me just now, I might remember how to lay hands on…
Ah, well. We shall see.
Back to the new page … this is a most fine development. Tor seems to be getting seriously behind Inside Straight and the whole series relaunch. Be sure to bookmark the site and check back frequently to see what new goodies have been posted. Between authors’ and characters’ bios and other material from the authors and your fan contributions, there should be a steady progression of Wild Cards goodness into the foreseeable future…
*Yes, I linked to the Wikipedia article on dinos. Yes, I did. You just can’t talk about dinosaurs enough.)
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