P A U L   E V A N   H U G H E S

"...[Hughes's] work is often autobiographical, personally revealing to the point of painful self-exposure, and navigates the ground of love, intimacy, sex, suicide, loss and isolation through a set of strategies which remain as engaging as they are provocative."
                                                                                                           --Pam Hall

"It would be easy, too easy, to see Paul's work in a purely autobiographical context. Indeed, he expertly draws from life in its formulation, yet the work also masterfully plays with conceptions of experience, identity and self-invention. Paul seems less concerned with what the world is and more intrigued by the potential of what might lie beyond the everyday."
                                                                                                    --Peter Hocking

"An interesting... website you've got there."
                                                                                              --Samuel R. Delany

 

Paul Hughes, a critically-acclaimed writer and interdisciplinary artist, is the founder and executive editor of Silverthought, an independent publishing company based in Northern New York. Silverthought has two imprints, Megan's Closet and Offense Mechanisms.

Hughes's debut novel, Enemy, received the Booksurge Editor's Choice Award in 2002. His second novel, An End, won the Gold Medal in Fantasy/Science Fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2003, making him the first self-published author utilizing on-demand publishing methods to win an IPPY. His third novel, Broken: A Plague Journal, was a Silver Medal winner at the 2006 IPPY Awards. Hughes intends to someday re-release all three books in one comprehensive, limited-edition, illustrated collection, Silver, but this very well may be his Symphony 10. He recently completed the collaborative novella "Deadlines" with Anders Laughton. It is available now in the Thank You, Death Robot anthology edited by Mark R. Brand.

Hughes cites writers Samuel R. Delany, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Hempel, Sara Teasedale and Stephen King, film editor Walter Murch, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, astrophysist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and rock legend Benny Mardones as his major creative influences.

When not managing Silverthought Press, Hughes works as a freelance designer and editor. He has edited the work of multiple nominees for and recipients of various independent publishing awards. He has also edited a furnace repair manual. He has been known to go through multiple yellow highlighters while tearing manuscripts shiny new assholes.

Hughes lives with his wife Doriann, two cats, and various woodland creatures at the luxurious corporate headquarters of Silverthought Press in Philadelphia, NY. His hobbies include caulking windows, sending fanmail to Kirk Douglas, tearing up floorboards, and engaging in an ongoing battle to the death with a woodchuck named Dr. Nemesis who lives in his basement and eats his insulation. Hughes has voted for Ross Perot in every presidential and local election since 1996. He collects rocks, horse bones, and bottle caps. He is allergic to donkeys. In former lives, Hughes has been a dairy farmer, a jazz musician, the creator of a mildly notorious video series about stuffed animals, an a cappella singer, a roofer, a functional alcoholic, and a janitor. He has irrational fears of clowns, singing children, swampland, groups of whistling people, antlers, eating anything with a spoon while watching a documentary, telephones, telephones, and the Amish. Hughes hates a lot of people, and a lot of people hate him. It pays the bills.

For inquiries regarding design or editing services, please email Paul Hughes or click for more details. References and work samples are available to potential clients upon request.

Click here for submission guidelines for Silverthought Press and its imprints. Please read these guidelines before sending your manuscript query. Address all other publishing correspondence to editor@silverthought.com.

Paul Hughes
Silverthought Press
32148 State Route 26
Philadelphia, NY 13673
mobile: 315 | 491 | 7837
editor@silverthought.com

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