The Three Guys One Book blog has added … another guy. Novelist Jonathan Evison joins industry vets Dennis Haritou, Jason Chambers and Jason Rice. In their welcome-to-Jonathan post, they tell us:
“It’s exceptional to encounter a personality so strong, so open to new ideas that you become friends, even though that friend lives 3,000 miles away and you have never met him. We have to admit that from our sealed-up world back East, we don’t always know what we’re dealing with in the vast Western territory of Jonathan Evison’s mind. But that’s what we like most about him.
“The Three Guys have reviewed books and interviewed authors now for about a year. But ever since we covered All About Lulu, Jonathan’s debut novel, we have stayed in touch with him, sharing ideas and a growing friendship. His prose, through its agility and warm-humored intelligence, has inspired us and made us better writers. So we thought, why not? We will ask him to join us and add a West Coast POV to what we do.
“The Three Guys welcome Jonathan Evison to our blog, which is now his blog also.”
Evison’s debut post skewers publishers for signing only likely crowd-pleasers. He’d rather “read and write books that only the most fearless editor would ever dare to publish, and only the most uncompromising writer would ever endeavor — at the risk of starving their family — to write. Whether you’re talking about narrative decisions or acquisitions, nothing is worse for literature than safe choices.”