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, […]
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 […]
Some links that are long overdue: The Tome Show reads The God Catcher and interviews me. Erik Scott de Bie (author of Shadowbane) and I talk about Brimstone Angels and Neverwinter. BrutalGamer loves Brimstone Angels Read Between the Lines does too! Suvudu sums it up nicely (interview to come) And if now you really want […]
Next week, I’ll be in Indianapolis for GenCon 2011. My schedule is still forming in some ways, but the thing the wide, wild internet should potentially care the most about is the signing I’ll be doing. Friday from 12:30-1:30 PM, I’ll be signing with Ed Greenwood. Bring God Catchers and Realms of the Deads* and […]
Let me make something perfectly clear: the man I married is fantastic. I’m pretty bad at writing down all the reasons I think that—mostly they’re too big and broad and messy. Example: How do you sum up the fact that you appreciate the fact that he does half the housework (including vacuuming because, holy gods, […]
It’s been a year now since I was laid off from my job as a novels editor at Wizards of the Coast. Looking back, it’s pretty clear this wasn’t my best year. Also I’m slightly worried about my novels coming true in real life to some extent . . . Write a book about a […]