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It’s Alive! Incarnate is Out TODAY!

Today is the official launch day for my fourth novel, Incarnate. I can’t thank you all enough for your continued support. What can you do for me today? Incarnate is a very important book. It’s some of my best work, and it can lead to so much for me—foreign sales, awards and nominations, getting my […]

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Complete List of Blurbs for Incarnate is In!

Here is a complete list of blurbs for Incarnate, out on 9/10/24. Pre-orders are available now.  “Thomas creates a detailed, transcendental world full of both beauty and brutality. There are too many monsters to count, and yet we still dare to hope. My favorite work of his to date.”—Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Mercedes M. Yardley  […]

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Dust Jacket for Incarnate Finalized!

Dust jacket, with blurbs, has been finalized for Incarnate. Can’t wait for you all to read this. Out on 9/10/25. Pre-orders available everywhere.

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ARCS of Incarnate Have Arrived!

Guys, I’m so excited. ARCS arrived today!!! You can pre-order now—ebooks are only $5.99 (not sure how long THAT will last) as well as paperbacks and audiobooks. Here are the blurbs I’ve gotten so far— “Thomas creates a detailed, transcendental world full of both beauty and brutality. There are too many monsters to count, and yet […]

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Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven. I’m IN IT!

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven, edited by Ellen Datlow, is out today. LOVE that cover art. It includes work by Laird Barron, Joe Hill, John Langan, and Gemma Files, among others, as well as “Golden Sun,” a novelette I co-wrote with Kristi DeMeester, Michael Wehunt, and Damien Angelica Walters. Pick up your […]

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Day Eleven: Medallion Donates Books!

Day Eleven: Over $21,000! And, Medallion Donates Books! Medallion Press has generously donated TWENTY sets of books, including Burnt Tongues (transgressive anthology), which I edited with Chuck Palahniuk and Dennis Widmyer; Knuckleduster (military thriller) by Andrew Post; Suckerpunch (MMA thriller) by Jeremy Brown, and The Devils That Have Come to Stay (an acid Western) by […]

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Day Ten Update: $20,000!

Day Ten Update: $20,000! In other news—we gave away prizes yesterday! WINNERS from last night: Lifetime membership at the $20,000 mark—EFP (in Spain!), #258. Craig Clevenger hardcover—Darryl Foster, #299! Paperback—Clark, #309. TODAY (2/10/16): We are giving away ONE signed Laird Barron X’S FOR EYES + Tuckerization today. New backers and upgrades are eligible for this […]

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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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For a Limited Time, Disintegration is On Sale for 99 cents.

For a limited time, Random House Alibi has put Disintegration on sale for 99 cents. 92% of the reviews at Amazon and 84% of the reviews at Goodreads are 4 or 5 stars. Pick up a copy today, and I hope you enjoy it. “A dark existential thriller of unexpected twists, featuring a drowning man […]

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It’s Release Day for DISINTEGRATION!

I can’t even believe Disintegration is finally here, six years in the making. I started this in my MFA program back in 2009, writing the first half with my professor Lynn Pruett, who knew nothing about neo-noir. After I gave her copies of work by Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger, she got what I […]

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