{"id":238,"date":"2016-02-02T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:25:29","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smaller-Dee-EvansF-23-Edit.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Davinia Evans was born in the tropics and raised on British comedy. With a lifelong fantasy-reading habit and an honours thesis in political strategy, it was perhaps inevitable that she turn to a life of crafting stories full of sneaky ratbags tangling with magic. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two humans (one large and one small), a neurotic cat and a cellar full of craft beer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Burnished City trilogy (from Orbit books worldwide) begins with the &#8220;wickedly entertaining&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=243\">NOTORIOUS SORCERER<\/a> (Sept 2022), continues with the Aurealis short-listed <a href=\"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=353\">SHADOW BARON<\/a> (Nov 2023) and concludes with <a href=\"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=396\">REBEL BLADE<\/a> (Dec 2024).<\/p>\n<p>Davinia Evans is represented by Kurestin Armada of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rootliterary.com\/\">Root Literary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davinia Evans was born in the tropics and raised on British comedy. With a lifelong fantasy-reading habit and an honours thesis in political strategy, it was perhaps inevitable that she turn to a life of crafting stories full of sneaky ratbags tangling with magic. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two humans (one large and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}