Robert Devereaux Bio

This week's special guest is Robert Devereaux!

Robert Devereaux made his professional debut in Pulphouse magazine in the late 1980's, attended the 1990 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and soon placed stories in such major venues as Crank!, Weird Tales, and Dennis Etchison's anthology MetaHorror.

Two of his stories made the final ballot for the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards. Robert has a well-deserved reputation as an author who pushes every envelope, though he would claim, with a stage actor's assurance, that as long as one's writing illuminates characters in all their kinks, quirks, kindnesses, and extremes, the imagination must be free to explore nasty places as well as nice, or what's the point?

His first novel Deadweight interweaves a King-like plot, penile implants, and splatterpunk extremes of sex and violence, managing all the while to be a sensitive, spot-on portrayal of an abused woman struggling to relinquish her role as victim.

Walking Wounded, his next novel, explores the dilemma of a good woman able to heal with her hands, but also to harm even unto death, whose discovery that her husband is cheating on her moves her, against her every humane impulse, to activate his Huntington's Disease and take him down.

Robert went on to shock the bluenoses with Santa Steps Out, in which Saint Nick's gradual recall of his former existence as Pan leads to an affair with the Tooth Fairy, while a voyeuristic Easter Bunny attempts to twitch and wiggle his way into Mrs. Claus's good graces. Santa Steps Out, which won much praise for its mythological underpinnings and the breathtaking sweep of its transgressions, also had the honor of being banned in that cultural backwater of intolerance and censoriousness known as Cincinnati.

Robert's other novels are Caliban, A Flight of Storks and Angels, and Santa Claus Conquers the Homophobes. His third Santa Claus novel is in the works. The best of his short fiction can be found in the Deadite Press collection Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit.

Robert lives in sunny northern Colorado, making up stuff that tickles his fancy and, he hopes, the fancies of his readers.

Visit Robert at his website and follow him on Goodreads and Twitter. 

Be sure to check back Wednesday for Robert's interview!