What is Evil Author Day?
Evil Author Day takes place on February 15th annually and is a ‘celebration’ of authors being ‘evil’ to their readers.
It originated as an author tease where the authors would post a list of titles of all the stories they were working on or the names of all their WIP (Works In Progress) files. (This brought a fair amount of amusement as ongoing projects often have cracky and ridiculous titles and/or tags)
What it has evolved into is as the authors in an ever-growing circle began to post excerpts or parts of whatever they have in progress, with absolutely no guarantees or promises they will ever be finished or even added to.
“There are no guarantees, warranties, or assurances here. There are no timelines, no promises, and no requests. We (including you dear reader) don’t get to ask, beg, threaten or demand that an author go back to any of the EAD posts. We say thank you, and move on. There is also no guarantee that, if an EAD story is completed, the excerpt posted will be included or remain intact.”
– Dark Seraphina (EAD Post)
If you would like to read EAD posts by other authors, you can find a collective EAD link archive maintained by Jilly James > HERE.