George R.R. Martin, currently experiencing new heights of popularity due to the HBO Game of Thrones series, is providing a premium for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in honor of Banned Books Week.  Martin is providing 100 autographed hardcover copies of the Wild Cards mosaic novel also signed by assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass and writers Daniel Abraham, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Cassutt, John Jos. Miller, and Caroline Spector.  They’ll be given to the first 100 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund donors of $100 or more as a Seven Signature Special.   

"It’s Banned Books Week, and there’s nothing I hate more than banning books (no, not even the New England Patriots and the Dallas Cowboys), so I’m doing my little bit with a fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,” Martin said."  …My own roots as a 'funny book' fan go all the way back to the letters of comment I published in Fantastic Four, Avengers, and other Marvel comics back in the early 60s. I also attended the very first comicon..., so comics are a medium dear to my heart... as anyone who has ever read my own long-running Wild Cards series of mosaic novels surely knows."