S. Usher Evans
@susherevans.bsky.social
Young adult & cozy fantasy author
Won a couple awards
Named “a treasure” by my husband
Won a couple awards
Named “a treasure” by my husband
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I feel like I just started posting here, stopped, then started again without introductions so...
Hi. I'm Sush. I wrote those Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy books you might have heard of. I also wrote a bunch of other stuff you probably haven't heard of.
Follow for random hot takes and flailing.
Hi. I'm Sush. I wrote those Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy books you might have heard of. I also wrote a bunch of other stuff you probably haven't heard of.
Follow for random hot takes and flailing.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
Big mood tonight. 🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Big mood tonight. 🇺🇸
The worst thing about the book I just read is how much the author harped on the age of the MMC as being geriatric and uh... he's a year younger than me.
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The worst thing about the book I just read is how much the author harped on the age of the MMC as being geriatric and uh... he's a year younger than me.
Our family of four paid ~$900/mo for health insurance on the ACA. Next year the same plan is $1700.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Our family of four paid ~$900/mo for health insurance on the ACA. Next year the same plan is $1700.
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It totally isn't coincidental that Amazon/Bezos contributed to this monstrosity and has his editorial board come out with this.
Also, having lived in DC for 11 years, way to (not) read a room, Bezos.
Also, having lived in DC for 11 years, way to (not) read a room, Bezos.
I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It totally isn't coincidental that Amazon/Bezos contributed to this monstrosity and has his editorial board come out with this.
Also, having lived in DC for 11 years, way to (not) read a room, Bezos.
Also, having lived in DC for 11 years, way to (not) read a room, Bezos.
Me, to husband: It's been a slow reading month. Feels like I haven't finished a book in a while.
Storygraph: 9 books finished in October
Storygraph: 9 books finished in October
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Me, to husband: It's been a slow reading month. Feels like I haven't finished a book in a while.
Storygraph: 9 books finished in October
Storygraph: 9 books finished in October
I regret to inform myself that putting the books and toys on display in their shelves instead of all over the house does, in fact, mean my kids will interact with them better.
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I regret to inform myself that putting the books and toys on display in their shelves instead of all over the house does, in fact, mean my kids will interact with them better.
TFW you're so enraptured by a book that you blow through it in one sitting then go snag the conclusion from Libby.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
TFW you're so enraptured by a book that you blow through it in one sitting then go snag the conclusion from Libby.
It would be so helpful if we could easily swap the edition we read on @thestorygraph.com without having to re-add the dates manually.
October 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It would be so helpful if we could easily swap the edition we read on @thestorygraph.com without having to re-add the dates manually.
I love my husband for other reasons ofc but there was a dead mouse in our washing machine, and he handled it for me so I absolutely cannot ever leave him.
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I love my husband for other reasons ofc but there was a dead mouse in our washing machine, and he handled it for me so I absolutely cannot ever leave him.
Current status all day. Will I get my words in? Hmmmm
a dog wearing a pair of ear buds is sitting in a car seat
ALT: a dog wearing a pair of ear buds is sitting in a car seat
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Current status all day. Will I get my words in? Hmmmm
At least it's not 🍆 soap
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
At least it's not 🍆 soap
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Eleven years, forty titles, and a writing process which she has "down to a science." We talked to @susherevans.bsky.social about how exactly she tackles cozy mysteries, how she combats writer's block, and the joy of transforming her work into audio! http://bit.ly/4gJlrl5
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Eleven years, forty titles, and a writing process which she has "down to a science." We talked to @susherevans.bsky.social about how exactly she tackles cozy mysteries, how she combats writer's block, and the joy of transforming her work into audio! http://bit.ly/4gJlrl5
Happy release day to my brand new #cozyfantasy series about a dragon shifter traveling the country looking for more of his kind while solving magical mysteries!
Grab it at your favorite retailer today:
susherevans.com/cozy/firewin...
Grab it at your favorite retailer today:
susherevans.com/cozy/firewin...
https://susherevans.com/cozy/firewing/pj-butterfly/
September 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy release day to my brand new #cozyfantasy series about a dragon shifter traveling the country looking for more of his kind while solving magical mysteries!
Grab it at your favorite retailer today:
susherevans.com/cozy/firewin...
Grab it at your favorite retailer today:
susherevans.com/cozy/firewin...
Proud to say I knocked out everything on my extensive Admin Week to do list, and can now spend my childfree Friday reading books and gazing into my husband's eyes. 👀
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Proud to say I knocked out everything on my extensive Admin Week to do list, and can now spend my childfree Friday reading books and gazing into my husband's eyes. 👀
And the way they double down when you tell them it's obviously AI.
Just a double reminder--
Writers, this negging garbage was written by AI and designed to insult you, flatter you, dare you, and scam you.
Scammers, this is embarrassingly badly done. Quit it.
Writers, this negging garbage was written by AI and designed to insult you, flatter you, dare you, and scam you.
Scammers, this is embarrassingly badly done. Quit it.
September 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
And the way they double down when you tell them it's obviously AI.
One thing I highly recommend for full time authors with the hyperfocus-brand of ADHD is to schedule an "admin week" between drafts. It gives me a week of buffer if drafting goes to hell, and it also gives me a week to tackle the boring things I didn't have the executive function for earlier.
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
One thing I highly recommend for full time authors with the hyperfocus-brand of ADHD is to schedule an "admin week" between drafts. It gives me a week of buffer if drafting goes to hell, and it also gives me a week to tackle the boring things I didn't have the executive function for earlier.
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I don't want to watch a fucking video. I don't want the only instructions of how to do something to be in video format. I don't want my social media to be a bunch of videos. I should not have to bring headphones (or annoy everyone) to doom scroll on the train. GIVE ME TEXT.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I don't want to watch a fucking video. I don't want the only instructions of how to do something to be in video format. I don't want my social media to be a bunch of videos. I should not have to bring headphones (or annoy everyone) to doom scroll on the train. GIVE ME TEXT.
I made some pretties during my child free evening/morning
September 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I made some pretties during my child free evening/morning
I wrote a 115k word book in a month.
Read it on my kobo and revised it in two days.
I hope the betas are as obsessed with it as I am.
Read it on my kobo and revised it in two days.
I hope the betas are as obsessed with it as I am.
September 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I wrote a 115k word book in a month.
Read it on my kobo and revised it in two days.
I hope the betas are as obsessed with it as I am.
Read it on my kobo and revised it in two days.
I hope the betas are as obsessed with it as I am.
The way that I am "just one more chapter"-ing this read of my own book 😂😂
September 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The way that I am "just one more chapter"-ing this read of my own book 😂😂
Having only a perfunctory appreciation for sports and zero idea how cricket works, why does the Cricket episode of bluey always make me cry???
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Having only a perfunctory appreciation for sports and zero idea how cricket works, why does the Cricket episode of bluey always make me cry???
Update: I wrote 9500 and got all the way to the end, minus the boning scene and one small scene getting character from point a to point b.
I'm actually gonna have a ready-for-other-peoples-eyes book by next week, omg.
I'm actually gonna have a ready-for-other-peoples-eyes book by next week, omg.
Surprising no one, the book I wrote for funsies to avoid stress is, in fact, stressing me out.
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
September 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Update: I wrote 9500 and got all the way to the end, minus the boning scene and one small scene getting character from point a to point b.
I'm actually gonna have a ready-for-other-peoples-eyes book by next week, omg.
I'm actually gonna have a ready-for-other-peoples-eyes book by next week, omg.
Surprising no one, the book I wrote for funsies to avoid stress is, in fact, stressing me out.
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
September 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Surprising no one, the book I wrote for funsies to avoid stress is, in fact, stressing me out.
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
Per my calculations I've got to write like 15k tomorrow.
(Or, more likely, I write as much as possible then leave the final bits for next week's pass)
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It's fall, which means all y'all are looking for warm, cozy books full of escape from this godawful hellscape we live in.
The first ebook bundle of Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy series (books 1-3) is on sale for $2.99!
susherevans.com/cozy/the-wea...
The first ebook bundle of Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy series (books 1-3) is on sale for $2.99!
susherevans.com/cozy/the-wea...
Drinks and Sinkholes
Drinks and Sinkholes is a cozy mystery fantasy series about an amnesiac innkeeper who solves cozy mysteries in her fantasy village.
susherevans.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's fall, which means all y'all are looking for warm, cozy books full of escape from this godawful hellscape we live in.
The first ebook bundle of Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy series (books 1-3) is on sale for $2.99!
susherevans.com/cozy/the-wea...
The first ebook bundle of Weary Dragon Inn cozy fantasy series (books 1-3) is on sale for $2.99!
susherevans.com/cozy/the-wea...