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Wild Cards, currently in TV development, is the fan favorite superhero series edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin San Antonio, home of the Alamo, is also host to the nation's top high school jazz competition, and the musicians at Xavier Desmond High are excited to outplay their rivals. They are also jokers, kids with strange abilities and even stranger looks. On top of that, well, they are teenagers, apt for mischief, mishaps, and romantic misunderstandings.Michelle Pond, aka The Amazing Bubbles, thinks that her superhero (and supermom) know-how has prepared her to chaperone the event. But when her students start going wayward, she'll soon discover the true meaning of "Don't mess with Texas."Texas Hold'em: A Wild Cards Novel is an adventure in the bestselling shared-universe science fiction superhero series, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and featuring the writing talents of David Anthony Durham (Acacia Trilogy) , Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) , Victor Milan (Dinosaur Lords series) , Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series) , Walton Simons, Caroline Spector and William F. Wu.Now in development for TV: Rights to develop Wild Cards have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team behind The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass, as executive producer.