A pair of new posts at George R.R. Martin’s “Not a Blog” provide updates on various “odds and ends”. First, he notes that Suicide Kings, the final volume in the new “Wild Cards” trilogy, is now on sale. Then in a longer post he reports that the original Wild Cards novel will be re-released with three brand-new stories, and the next “Wild Cards” novel Fort Freak is well under way with all first drafts in and revision notes out.

Finally, GRRM shares the fact that the cross-genre anthology he and Gardner Dozois have edited is nearly ready for delivery, though the title has been changed from Star-Crossed Lovers to Songs of Love and Death. GRRM includes a partial list of contributors: Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, M.L.N. Hanover, Peter S. Beagle, Marjorie Liu, Jacqueline Carey, Carrie Vaughn, Robin Hobb, and Neil Gaiman.