Periodically, when someone is an evil inspiration, we dub them a Patron Saint of Eviltry.

 

Lilith Saintcrow

Patron Saint of Evil Writers

Honorary “Bad Horse” of the ELEW

Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, bounced around the world as an Air Force brat, and fell in love with writing at the tender age of nine. She is the author of the Dante Valentine and Jill Kismet series, as well as the bestselling Strange Angels YA series, which she wrote under the name Lili St. Crow. She lives in Vancouver, Washington, with two children, three cats and assorted other strays. Please check out her website at www.lilithsaintcrow.com/journal/

Also, she is evil.

Read our interview with Lilith Saintcrow here.

 

Aurelio Voltaire

Patron Saint of Macabre Humor

Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man. He is a singer/ performer, creator of comic books, animation and toys.

In short, he’s pretty damn awesome and talented.

He is the creator of the song we adopted as our theme,When You’re Evil, and his albums are a must-buy for all persons aspiring to eviltry.

Interview is here.
(Image credit: Jennifer Tzar)

Andrew Shaffer

Patron Saint of Snarkdom

Andrew Shaffer is a humorist and New York Times bestselling author whose works include Syfy’s How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, and the Goodreads Choice semifinalist Fifty Shames of Earl Grey.

He has appeared as a guest on FOX News, CBS, and NPR, and has been published in Mental Floss, Maxim, and The Daily Beast, among others. He has professionally reviewed romance, erotica, and women’s fiction for RT Book Reviews magazine.

Shaffer attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for a summer semester and studied comedy writing at Chicago’s The Second City. An Iowa native, Shaffer lives in Portland, Oregon, a magical land of flannel and craft beer.

He is the owner and creative director of Order of St. Nick, the greeting card company whose cards have been featured on The Colbert Report.

Interview is here.

 

Tiffany Reisz

Patron Saint of Smexay

Tiffany Reisz is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series for Mira Books (Harlequin/Mills & Boon). Tiffany’s books inhabit a sexy shadowy world where romance, erotica and literature meet and do immoral and possibly illegal things to each other. She describes her genre as “literary friction,” a term she stole from her main character, who gets in trouble almost as often as the author herself.

She lives in Portland, Oregon. If she couldn’t write, she would die.

Interview is here.

 

Jim Butcher

Darth McBroodypants

Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and a new steampunk series, the Cinder Spires. His resume includes a laundry list of skills which were useful a couple of centuries ago, and he plays guitar quite badly. An avid gamer, he plays tabletop games in varying systems, a variety of video games on PC and console, and LARPs whenever he can make time for it. Jim currently resides mostly inside his own head, but his head can generally be found in his home town of Independence, Missouri.

Interview is here.