September 2013

The 5th Raine’s Landing novel — Speak of the Devil – is now out on Kindle. You can find out more about it on my Home Page.

richardsreality.com has been updated, with news of my latest books, a hugely expanded art gallery, a guide to all my ebooks, and a new interview conducted by award-winning author Ed Gorman. You can’t say I don’t try to keep things interesting.

And on the 16th of this month, my first full-length novel from a major publisher in 4 years — Tropic of Darkness from Simon & Schuster/Pocket Star — was released as a $1.99 ebook. Again, there’s full news about this Havana-based supernatural chiller on my Home Page. It’s already getting good reviews. The paperback will be out next year.

August 2013

The cover for my forthcoming new novel Tropic of Darkness can now be viewed on my blog. The release date for the ebook version is September 16th, and a paperback version will be out next year.

July 2013

Still working on Speak of the Devil — it’s long, and is taking a while.

The great news is that, as regards my latest short story collection, The Universal and Other Terrors, the terrific artist M. Wayne Miller is not only painting the cover, he’s illustrating each one of the individual stories. I’ve been looking at each of his illos as he has completed them, and they are absolutely wonderful. A good clutch of the very best will be appearing in the art gallery of this very website before too much longer. Wayne did the covers for both Shadows and Other Tales and Midnight’s Angelssee my Home Page  — and I’m a huge fan of his work.

June 2013

Writing isn’t just about being published. Sometimes, you have to prepare for that event. And so I’ve spent a lot of time recently checking proofs and edits for my forthcoming novels Tropic of Darkness from Simon & Schuster/Pocket Star and Under the Ice from Samhain Publishing.

I’ve also been busy completing the fifth Raine’s Landing novel, Speak of the Devil.

May 2013

I’ve now put two collections — The Immortal Sherlock Holmes: Volume I, which kind of speaks for itself, and Dark Futures, eight of my sf/horror fusion stories — onto Smashwords. And they’ve immediately been accepted for the Premium Catalogue, which means they’re now available on Nook, Kobo, Sony, Apple eReader, and just about any ebook source that you can think of. Way too many links to include here — go search them. But here’s a head start, with my Nook and Kobo pages.

The cover for my forthcoming supernatural novella, Under the Ice from Samhain Publishing, is now up on my blog.

April 2013

Dark Regions Press has bought my latest collection of stories, The Universal and Other Terrors. As the title implies, it’s horror tales. The collection includes 5 brand-new ones, never previously published, and each story will be illustrated by Wayne Miller, who is also working on the cover.

March 2013

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine has bought two more of my Abel Enetame/Future Africa mysteries, ‘The Clan’ and ‘The Danua Boy.’

February 2013

My well-received supernatural novella Under the Ice first appeared in the mid-Noughties as a collector’s hardback from Sarob Press. But now Samhain Publishing are to bring out an ebook version towards the end of this year. More news on this subject when I have it.

January 2013

At last, after a good long wait, my third Raine’s Landing supernatural thriller — Midnight’s Angels — is available in ebook form. You can get it both on Smashwords and on Amazon Kindle.

And I’ve repackaged my horror tales on Kindle into three 12-story volumes called The Books of Shadow.

December 2012

There’ll be more book news in the new year. I’m just waiting for ink to dry on contracts at the moment.