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Interview up at 3:AM Magazine

An interview with me done by the talented Gregory Frye is now up at 3:AM Magazine. Love 3:AM, they published a story of mine “A Bird in the Hand” last year. 3:AM MAGAZINE Here’s an excerpt: Richard Thomas is catching a lot of attention with his debut novel Transubstantiate, a neo-noir thriller mostly set on […]

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“Maker of Flight” wins another contest – Jotspeak

Check this out! WINNERS! I WON! For my story “Maker of Flight” that also won at ChiZine.com last year. It is based on the novel Filaria by Brent Hayward. I beat out 200 other stories, WOW! I figured, since you could enter previously published work, that MOF was a good story to send in. Good […]

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Shivers VI Announced – Stephen King, Peter Straub and ME!

Wow, got the announcement tonight, and Shivers VI, which I knew was coming (produced by Cemetery Dance) will have a novella by Stephen King and Peter Straub in it. WOW. My story “Stillness” will be in such great company, I mean, these are the guys I grew up reading, my idols. I’m floored. It’s a […]

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Interview at Oxyfication (with Justin Holt)

Justin Holt spent the last week interviewing me about Transubstantiate, and other things too – how I got started, what my influences were, my thoughts on various genres, and what my plans are for the future. Be sure to check it out. OXYFICATION Intro: Richard Thomas is a busy man. He’s a husband and father […]

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Amazon Bots Giving Me Some Love

So, I got an email from Amazon yesterday, and it kind of caught me off guard. It wanted to know if I was interested in some other thrillers, some books. Of course I’m interested, let me open that email and see what you’ve got for me today. And what was it? Wow. There’s my own […]

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Epic review of Transubstantiate at Oxyfication

Jason Kane has written a fantastic review of my novel Transubstantiate up at Oxyfication. THIS is my audience, he gets it, and he really likes it. Such an elegant, insightful review. WARNING: There are mild spoilers throughout, but nothing that will detract from the novel, but purists may want to read it after the book. […]

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Richard Does Wicker Park

So I took the day to run down to Wicker Park, my old neighborhood in the city of Chicago. I’m about 35 miles N/NW in the suburbs, where I live now, but I try to get back to my old haunts whenever I can. Ah, it was so much fun to run around. I went […]

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Reading at Archie’s this Sunday

I’ll be reading this Sunday from my new novel, Transubstantiate. If you’re in the area, come on out. PFR DIVE READING Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010 Time: 8:00pm – 11:30pm Location: Archie’s Iowa Rockwell Tavern Street: 2600 W Iowa City/Town: Chicago, IL Here’s the link to the Event page on FB too: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130679203628854

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Signed, limited of Transubstantiate are…signed!

Here are some pictures from the signing of my 100 S/L. Mailed back to OWP today, Fed Ex, so if the CDs are all ready to go, then they should be in the mail in a week or so:

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Review of Transubstantiate at Rotten Leaves

Fantastic three-headed review of Transubstantiate at Rotten Leaves, by Axel Taiari, Christopher Dwyer and Nik Korpon (Otherworld Publications label mate). ROTTEN LEAVES Axel: “…while other authors could easily struggle with unleashing multiple points of view at such pace, Richard manages to make it all fit together, make sense, build characters, craft a vivid world, each […]

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