"...[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. He does not approach these ideas with solipsism or sugarcoating. His work is not at all sentimental. Indeed, his work is punctuated with difficult human questions of existence."
                                                                                                    --Peter Hocking

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

Paul Evan Hughes is the author of the award-winning Silver trilogy, available now from Silverthought Press and Amazon.

PAUL EVAN 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 Independent Publisher Book Award for Fantasy/Sci-Fi 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 Finalist for the 2006 IPPY for Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Hughes intends to re-release all three books in one comprehensive, limited-edition, illustrated collection, Silver, in 2008. He is also finishing a collaborative novel with writers Mark Brand and Becci Noblit Goodall called night.blind.

Hughes cites writers Samuel R. Delany, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Hempel, Sara Teasedale and Stephen King, editor Walter Murch, world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, rock star Benny Mardones, the Mythbusters, the city of Seattle, and a variety of lying, cheating exes 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 the Independent Publisher Book Award, the DIY Book Festival Award, the New York Book Festival Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He also once edited a furnace repair manual. He has been known to go through multiple yellow highlighters while tearing manuscripts shiny new assholes.

Hughes lives a hermit life in a slanted farmhouse in Philadelphia, NY. His hobbies include smoking, getting dumped, caulking windows, sending fanmail to Kirk Douglas, tearing up floorboards, getting dumped, and smoking. Hughes has voted for Ross Perot in every presidential and local election since 1996. His interest in politics stems from losing his virginity to a county legislator. Hughes is a loyal consumer of Marlboro 100s, Miller High Life, and Coffeemate. Hughes grew up on a farm, is a functional alcoholic, and once threatened Benny Mardones to a fistfight. He is the president and sole member of the New York arm of the Heidi Jutras (Canadian Idol 5) Fan Club. He has irrational fears of clowns, singing children, swampland, commitment, groups of whistling people, antlers, eating anything with a spoon while watching a documentary, and the Amish. Hughes hates a lot of people, and a lot of people hate him. It pays the bills.

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