About the Author
John Lawson’s imagination was born in the fires of the exploding Death Star, was raised in the uncharted wildernesses of Narnia, and exhibited a healthy disregard for the Prime Directive. It feasted upon giant peaches, blitzed through phantom tollbooths, and wagered heavily upon the outcome of the Westing Game. It retired skin jobs, tried to save Sarah Connor, and quested for the Holy Grail. It knew better than to press its face into a recently opened alien egg, it understood how a simple rafting trip could result in an extended dinosaur vacation, and it wept when Lowell and Huey died aboard the Valley Forge. It knows you’re not supposed to shoot a person’s gun and never give cigarettes to trees. It totally understands Wolverine’s anger issues and would like to buy him a drink at the Corova Milk Bar, where they could discuss whether or not the Snouts had it coming. It collected scales outside a dragon’s lair, doesn’t believe ROUS exist, and flipped a coin a hundred times and always came up heads. It can debate Bully Hayes versus Jack Sparrow, princesses versus farmgirls, and chimps versus dolphins. And it isn’t sure if Keyser Soze exists, but it’s afraid of him anyway.
Before writing Sorrow, John wrote two other books, Witch Ember and The Raven, to which Sorrow is something of a sequel. Please read them all. Not because they’re good, but because I asked you nicely.
Officially, John is a technical writer and online help developer, working for one of those really big software companies. When he is not working, commuting, spending time with his wife and kids, serving as the Submissions Editor of the creative arts webzine TenThousandMonkeys.com, reading, eating, sleeping, or goofing off playing computer games, he occasionally can be found writing.
