George R.R. Martin proudly announces that his 1980's novella "The Skin Trade" would soon be adapted into a TV series thanks to Cinemax.

In his Live Journal personal blog, the famous "A Song of Ice and Fire" author revealed how Cinemax, HBO's sister company, had acquired the rights to adapt his novella into a TV series.

"I am very excited to announce the Cinemax (HBO's sister company) has optioned the television rights to 'The Skin Trade,' the offbeat 'werewolf noir' novella I penned back in the late 80s," he wrote, adding that the deal has been closed and that the studio has already ordered a pilot script.

According to Good Reads, Martin's "The Skin Trade," published in 1989, follows the story of private detective Randi Wade who becomes suspicious of the grotesque killings in her small town that reminds her of her father's death two decades past.

The book's synopsis further reveals that the serial killer takes his or her victims' skin after slaying them.

"When a close friend suddenly becomes a target, he is forced to reveal a startling secret about himself and Randi is quickly pulled into a dark world within her own town where monsters exist and prey on the living," the synopsis read.

According to the author, his thrilling book was originally penned for the fifth volume of "Night Vision," the 'prestigious annual horror anthology' from Martin and other best-selling suspense-thriller authors Stephen King and Dan Simmons.

"Those of you who know the story of DOORWAYS, my ill-fated ABC pilot from the early 90s, may even recall that it was SKIN TRADE that I was actually trying to sell back in 1991, when I flew out to LA for a round of pitch meetings. So we're a few decades late," he continued.

According to Variety, "Once Upon a Time" and "Prison Break" writer Kalinda Vazquez has been tapped to work on the show's script.

"Cinemax and my agents set me up for meetings with close to a dozen different TV writers, many of them very impressive, but Kalinda's take on the story and the characters blew me away," Martin explained.

While he would have written the pilot script himself, the author revealed that he was too busy catching up to his writing to finish the sixth book of his series "A Song Ice and Fire," the story that inspired HBO's epic award-winning series "Game of Thrones."

According to Martin, "The Skin Trade" had been reprinted several times and was even adapted into an Avatar graphic novel and comic book miniseries with Mike Wolfer as the artist.