I’m at Gen Con! Here’s my schedule, but I’ll also be judging the costume contest on Saturday from 4-6! (Plus a few other things I’ll add later). It’s too hot and too early though. What’s up with that Indy?
This is my Granddad, Robert Carson Evans, Sr. He died last Saturday. He was ninety-one. He survived cancer, a heart attack and three wars—Vietnam twice. He retired from the Marines as a lieutenant colonel, where he was mostly a combat engineer after being a naval aviator in World War II. I have heard that they […]
It’s that time of year again, where all the dice return to their ancestral home and plane tickets to Indianapolis get crazy expensive: GenCon! This year I will be at GenCon, participating in the Writer’s Symposium, signing books, and probably showing up in a few surprise places. If you haven’t checked out the events catalog, […]
As promised, here is the cover for Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils. From the cover copy: First there were three. Mere weeks after escaping Neverwinter, Farideh’s dreams are still haunted by Lorcan, the cambion devil whose power fuels her own. One of only four known descendants of the original Brimstone Angel, Farideh has no regrets about the […]
Experiment #1: Writing while enormously pregnant PROS: Baby is contained. No schedule to disrupt. Kicks seldom impact keyboard. CONS: Brain is riding high on cocktail of hormones that may cause you to think either everything you’ve written is nonsense or that writing a blue kangaroo wizard who’s trying to lasso the sun is a bitching […]
It occurs to me, this blog’s been too quiet for a while. I have my reasons. And while those reasons are certainly still in play, six months in I have a better sense of my schedule and his. So going forward, expect Slush Lush to update on Fridays (at the very least). Meanwhile, the “About […]
Using a role-playing game as a jumping off point for your fiction is incredibly common—and incredibly dicey. I’ve shepherded enough slush to know that it’s very easy to be thrown off your game by the rules and conceits of a world that’s not meant to be a novel. If the writer is the DM, the […]
This post first appeared on my public Facebook page. When people have asked me what my books are about, I have two stock answers: the longer, thematic literary answer and the shorter, to-the-point genre answer. For example, my first novel, The God Catcher, was about the duality of identity and the conflict that occurs when […]
NB: I wrote this post about a month ago, while I was still pregnant. And then I stopped being pregnant and it took some time to publish. Recently, I was interviewed for The Tome Show about The God Catcher. You can listen to it here (I don’t start talking until halfway in, but the rest […]
I don’t like having pictures of my characters. Okay, that’s not exactly true. If someone turned up with fanart of one of my characters, I would be absolutely tickled. But not because I want to see representations of these people—because it was real enough and clear enough to make someone want to recreate it. I loved hearing someone […]