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If It Bleeds (By: Jonathan Maberry,Jeremy Robinson,Kevin J. Anderson,Bryan Thomas Schmidt,Tim Lebbon,Andrew Mayne,Steve Perry,Mira Grant,Larry Correia,Dayton Ward)
Prophecy and Change (By: Marco Palmieri,Keith R.A. DeCandido,Kevin G. Summers,Una McCormack,Andy Mangels,Terri Osborne,Heather Jarman,Geoffrey Thorne,Christopher L. Bennett,Andrew Jordt Robinson,Michael A. Martin)
Lawrence Watt-Evans is a renowned American novelist of fantasy, science fiction, high fantasy, and adult fiction novels. He is well known for writing several popular book series, including the Ethshar series, War Surplus series, Lords of Dus series, Obsidian Chronicles series, and The Annals of the Chosen series. Along with writing under his original name, Watt-Evans uses the pen name of Nathan Archer to write mainly science fiction novels. Author Watt-Evans was born as Lawrence Watt Evans in 1954 in Arlington, Massachusetts. He was the fourth child in a total of six children born to his parents. Watt-Evans made his first attempt to writing anything at the professional level when he was 8 years old. He completed his high school graduation from Bedford High School and then joined the Princeton University. However, he could not obtain a degree.
When he thought of applying at the university again, he was asked to wait for a period of one year. Watt-Evans decided to use this time for selling his writing and became so serious in this effort that the idea of getting a degree did not come to his mind again. The first success that Watt-Evans achieved was when he sold his book, The Lure of the Basilisk, in 1979. After the release of this book in 1980, he settled down as a full-time writer. Even though Watt-Evans wrote the first few articles and short stories under his birth name, he thought of submitting his debut novel under a pen name. The editor of that book, Lester del Rey, demanded that Watt-Evans uses his original name and upon his suggestion, Watt-Evans included the hyphen to create the pseudonym Lawrence Watt-Evans. He had insisted to include the middle name in order to avoid being confused with a contemporary writer of nonfiction named Lawrence Evans. Lester del Rey that Watt-Evans add the hyphen to make his name look more distinctive.
Author Watt-Evans has served as the president of HWA between 1994 and 1996. He has also held the post of treasurer and Regional Director of SFFWA. Between 1995 and 1997, Watt-Evans shared half partnership of the Malicious Press with Terry Rossio, a renowned screenwriter. He also published the Deathrealm magazine whose editor was Stephen Mark Rainey. Watt-Evans was Helix SF’s managing editor for its entire tenure of10 quarterly issues. In 2005, Watt-Evans declared that he will be adapting the first draft of the Ethshar book, The Spriggan Mirror, into an online serial. After finishing the draft, Watt-Evans made it available on one of his websites. Later, a revised version of the book was released commercially in paper and electronic editions and the free version was taken off. Since then, Watt-Evans has completed many online serials with the use of Street Performer Protocol method.
In 2013, Watt-Evans started a crowdfunding campaign for an unreleased science fiction book called Vika’s Avenger. He likes to give the credit of his success as a science fiction writer to his parents, both of whom were avid readers of science fiction stories. Because of them, he also developed an interest in the genre. Now, Watt-Evans has more than 40 novels, over a hundred short stories, more than 150 published articles, several comic books, and two nonfiction volumes to his name. He has completed over 30 years working as a full-time author. Even today, Watt-Evans is enthusiastic about new ideas and projects to work on. In addition to his writing contributions, he has been a member of numerous writers’ groups and is still involved in many of them.
Watt-Evans has also taken up the role of a professional researcher in his career. He has organized and undertaken numerous writing workshops. Also, Watt-Evans has served as an instructor at Bethesda’s Writer’s Center and Viable Paradise. Author Watt-Evans is represented by a literary agency called Scovil Galen Ghosh. He is happily married to Julie F. McKenna. The couple has two children named Julian S.G. Evans and Kyrith Amanda Evans. His family supports his writing works with all their heart and he feels grateful for their love and support. Watt-Evans looks forward to writing a lot more science fiction/fantasy novels in the coming years and keep entertaining his fans for as long as he can.
A successful series penned by author Lawrence Watt-Evans is known as the Obsidian Chronicles series. It is comprised of three books in total, released between 1999 and 2003. The essential characters mentioned in this series include Arlian, Black, and several others. Watt-Evans has named the debut book of this series as ‘Dragon Weather’. It was released by Tor Books in 2009, ten years after its first release in 1999. The book opens by depicting that Arlian had not gone out of his village located in Obsidian Mountains ever. The white peaks, black glass, and green hills were everything that he ever had. Arlian dreamed to go on adventure travels, but he knew very well that he would never leave. When the dragon weather arrived, the entire village got covered in oppressive humidity, incredible heat, dark & angry clouds, and dragons. The dragons show no empathy for humans and destroy the whole village along with its people. Arlian somehow survives and moves away from his destroyed village to find shelter. Later, the orphaned Arlian gets enslaved by looters and sold to the mines.
After working in the mines for seven years, Arlian finally manages to escape slavery. He is now grown up into a man and vows to take revenge from the deadly dragons, slavers, and bandits. As he travels through the wild, Arlian gets obsessed with justice. On the way, he befriends a man named Black, who also sees that all of Arlian’s decisions and tasks are done under the effect of his sense of justice. The second novel of the series is called ‘The Dragon Society’. It was published in 2003 by the Tor publication. This novel depicts that Arlian arrives at The Dragon Society with the purpose of seeking revenge from the dragons who destroyed his beautiful village. At the society, Arlian learns shocking facts and is forced to rethink his decision. Arlian discovers that he is the last hope for humanity and cannot risk his life. To defeat the dragons permanently, he hatches out a plan by keeping himself out of harm’s way.
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