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Due to Popular Demand Gamut is Adding in eBooks NOW at 50% OFF.

BIG NEWS! Due to popular demand, we’re adding in eBooks NOW! If you still only want the website subscription, add or keep that at $30 a year. If you’d like just the eBooks, add or change to that reward for $42 a year. If you’d like BOTH, then add or upgrade to that reward, for […]

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Day Three Update: Gamut over $8,000.

Day three and we have over 150 backers, raising over $8,000 to date. Are you in yet? I need your support to get to that lofty goal of $52,000—I can’t do it alone. New rewards added today include poetry editing packages, and a subscription + Dark House Press titles. I hope you’ll be a part […]

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Gamut Magazine: What’s This Website All About?

(Art by Luke Spooner) “Now that short fiction has become as standardized as the SATs and Common Core—all in order to ‘judge’ and ‘rank’ writers—I’m excited to see what Richard Thomas brings to the game. Gamut will be the new magazine not written for the little old lady in Dubuque.” —Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight […]

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Complete List of Online Interviews by Richard Thomas

This is a list of interviews that I’ve conducted over the years, all in one place. More coming soon. Enjoy! With Noir at the Bar (Jed Ayres) at Walrus Publishing 7/2013 With xTx at The Rumpus 7/2013 With Amelia Gray at The Nervous Breakdown 10/2010 With Kevin Guilfoile at What Does Not Kill Me 3/2009

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Editing Services

I’ve been working with a number of authors for the past couple of years now. If you need help with a short story or novel, everything from big picture edits (what’s working and what isn’t, why doesn’t this have the impact I want, conflict, plot, setting, etc.) to up close edits (typos, grammar, tense, dialogue, […]

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Dark House Press imprint launched with Richard Thomas as Editor-in-Chief.

I’m thrilled to announce that I am the new Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press, an imprint of Curbside Splendor. I’ll be working closely with Victor David Giron, Ben Tanzer, and Jacob S. Knabb to publish neo-noir, speculative, literary fiction. Here’s what they had to say today: We’re happy to announce that award winning author Richard […]

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Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) Table of Contents Released

We can finally announce the full table of contents for Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) a collection of transgressive short stories edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and myself. Out in 2014. Introduction by Chuck Palahniuk Live This Down by Neil Krolicki Charlie by Chris Lewis Carter Paper by Gayle Towell Mating Calls by Tony Liebhard […]

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Complete List of Online Interviews with Richard Thomas

This is a list of all of the interviews that I’ve done online over the years, in reverse chronological order. (Last Updated: September 2, 2022) At The Horror Tree with Jacque E. Day (9/2/22) At Lovecraft eZine with Mike Davis (6/5/22) At MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape (2/24/22) At Third Coast Review (2/22/22) At Paul Semel’s website (2/21/22) At […]

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Release the Kraken! My short story collection, Staring Into the Abyss, will be out later this year.

That’s right, my second short story collection, Staring Into the Abyss, will be out later this year from Kraken Press. It’s a collection of 20 dark stories, neo-noir leaning towards horror, and some of my best work to date. Want to know more? Head over to their website or just keep reading. We’re targeting March, […]

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The Pushcarts, Luna Park Review and Online Publishing

When I first read the article by Travis Kurowksi at Luna Park Review, I thought to myself, well, that’s not going to change any time soon. Then I realized that I had a story nominated by Metazen (an online publication) for my story “Twenty Reasons to Stay and One to Leave,” and suddenly I was […]

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