Jon Evans

My thriller DARK PLACES won an Arthur Ellis Award; my Vertigo Crime graphic novel THE EXECUTOR was nominated for a Spinetingler Award, and appeared on several best-of-the-year-lists; my very unusual fantasy novel BEASTS OF NEW YORK won a ForeWord Book of the Year award, and seems to have acquired a small but devoted cult following. In addition to writing novels, I'm also a journalist who has traveled to more than 100 countries, and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo; the CTO of the software consultancy HappyFunCorp, and the initial technical architect of bookshop.org; and the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, preserving the world's open-source software in Oxford's Bodleian Library, Egypt's Library of Alexandria, and a permafrost vault beneath an Arctic mountain, for 1,000 years. (Yes, really.)

For some reason it is semi-obligatory for writers to count how many languages our work has been translated to. (Some of the more daring among us may even end a sentence with a preposition while doing so.) Thirteen, since you insist.

For far, for more about me than you probably ever wanted to know, see my web site rezendi.com.