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Caleb Ross – Charactered Pieces Tour
Posted on December 22, 2009 5 Comments
What a talented guy. Caleb has been an inspiration to me, and he has opened my eyes to the world of fiction, the landscape of journals and presses. I would not have had any success without talented, giving people like Caleb in my corner. I owe him a lot. His chapbook, Charactered Pieces, is wonderful. […]
Stephen Graham Jones interview by Craig Wallwork
Posted on December 5, 2009 3 Comments
So Stephen Graham Jones is just a fascinating, immensely talented writer, and not only a great influence on me, but a bit of the ideal future I seek out. He has published seven novels, teaches at the MFA program at CU Boulder, and is one of the most prolific writers I know. I have been […]
Dueling Columns 2 – Print vs. Online
Posted on October 24, 2009 14 Comments
Print vs. Online – The great debate So Larina and I are once again at it. We’re going to try to be a little more regular about this, but things got in the way in the past month – birth, death, work, alcohol, nudity, football, kids, and beef jerky. Not necessarily in that order. Take […]
Exquisite Corpse – Storming the Pushcarts at HTML Giant
Posted on September 30, 2009 1 Comment
Ran across a rather interesting little project over at HTML Giant http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15597 thanks to my friend Nik Korpon. I was out camping with the boy, our first trip doing such things, caught a fish, burned things, all a great time. But I came to the game almost too late. NO COLONY http://www.nocolony.com/# and Blake Butler, […]
Speculative slipstream cross-genre new wave fabulist fiction
Posted on August 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
Okay, so I ran across this great article at Omnidawn today ( http://www.omnidawn.com/ ) and even though it was dated 2006, it sounds as if it was written yesterday. It relates to a lot of what I personally write, as well as many of my friends and peers. I see Brian Evenson talking about it […]
“Maker of Flight” is live – Winner of Filaria Contest
Posted on April 1, 2009 2 Comments
Well, the story is now live. Hope you dig it, I really had fun with it. I’ve had some fantastic conversations with the author Brent Hayward, saying that this story will now be a part of the world he created, which is really just the nicest thing I could hear about this short. Brett Alexander […]
I just won the ChiZine Publications “Enter the World of Filaria” fiction writing contest
Posted on March 10, 2009 Leave a Comment
http://chizine.com/chizinepub/announcements/filaria-contest-winners.php It is finally, public. I am the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest by ChiZine Publications. This is the first time I’ve ever won anything writing related. I get published online and $250 bucks! WOW! My first paycheck as a writer. The story, “Maker of Flight” will be posted April […]
Interview: Kevin Guilfoile – Chicago Crime Writer
Posted on March 4, 2009 3 Comments
You can also read Kevin’s writing here at http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/kevin_guilfoile/
Opium Magazines Literary Death Match
Posted on February 19, 2009 2 Comments
Wow, what a great time. Got there just in time. Thanks to Todd from Opium (http://www.opiummagazine.com/)for a great event, was very cool chatting. I mentioned to him my short “Animal Magnetism” that they published online, and he actually remembered it. Said that he was kind of burnt out one day, and picked up my story, […]
Author Profile
Posted on February 19, 2009
(Illustration by Erik Wilson, © 2015.) UPDATED: February 13, 2019 BOOKS: Richard is the author of seven books—three novels, including Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications, 2010), Disintegration (Random House Alibi, 2015) and Breaker (Random House Alibi, 2016); three short story collections, Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press, 2012), Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press, 2013), and Tribulations (Cemetery Dance/Crystal […]
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