I have a Marty Storm short story up at Prolific Works. And it’s FREE! So if you want to know a bit about the notorious protagonist of my upcoming dark-fantasy noir crime novel, Storm Waters, go get it! Did I mention it’s free? So click the cover photo and go get it!
Front cover for Storm Waters… yeah, I have a new book coming out soon from Fairwood Press.
I haven’t used this site in a long time, but I noticed people are still finding it. So, here’s the cover for my upcoming novel (hoping to be a series) featuring my Hammett-inspired antihero Marty Storm. Click on the image to go to the presale page, where you can make the publisher’s day by ordering early, and save $3 off the regular cover price. E-book and print to start, then we hope for audio later.
A modern noir thriller with a paranormal twist set in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Prohibition has just ended, and the US is still struggling in the depths of the Great Depression. But for notorious playboy and ex-bootlegger Marty Storm, life couldn’t be better. Only his best friend knows about his knack for water magic—and for making “problems” disappear—though no one knows his family’s shipping business was built on sorcery and murder.
When he’s accused of a gruesome murder, he knows he’s been framed, but corrupt cops and his conscience aren’t his only problem. Vengeful spirits, a little girl with a strange connection to the Los Angeles River, a crate full of trouble, and broken memories, force him to unwind the horrifying secrets of his own past and return to the dark heart of his family in the bayous outside New Orleans. With some unlikely allies both new and old, Marty must confront the ugly source of his family’s fortune and power.
Murder, magic, love, death, and family: Marty Storm has come to the tipping point of his life, whether he knows it or not, and to control his destiny, he’ll take a desperate plunge into dark magic he swore he’d never use.
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BLOOD ORBIT, my pseudonymous Science Fiction novel, now has an official catalog listing.
Have yourself a Merry Little Dogmas, and read this clever post about dogs pulling christmas trees on sleds (no dogs were injured or abused, they’re working!)
Well… I guess I will have a book out May 8 2018 under my SF pen name K. R. Richardson. Originally submitted as Scattered Objects, my SF police thriller will be released under the title BLOOD ORBIT by Pyr. (cover and websites to come in the new year.)
Indigo got a nice review at Superhero Novels, which included a line I wrote. It’s nifty!
Tor.com is giving away a pile of books by all ten authors of INDIGO–the cooperative novel I worked on last year, which will be released June 20 by Macmillan. You know you (or some friends or family) want some of these, so go to the Tor.com Indigo Sweepstakes page and sign up!
The Greywalker novels are the first mention on this nifty list of Seven Great Urban Fantasy Occult Detectives!
I now have my schedule for Norwescon, at the Seattle Airport DoubleTree Hotel over Easter weekend. It’ll be my first NWC in… Uhh… 5 years? Anyhow…
Friday
Failing Upward
1:00pm – 2:00pm @ Cascade 5&6
Kat Richardson (M), Lisa Mantchev, Jack Skillingstead, Scott James Magner
Raising the Stakes
2:00pm – 3:00pm @ Cascade 11
Mark Teppo (M), PJ Manney, Kat Richardson, David D. Levine
Shady Characters
4:00pm – 5:00pm @ Cascade 11
Raven Oak (M), Kat Richardson, Tod McCoy, PJ Manney
Dialects in Fiction
6:00pm – 7:00pm @ Cascade 10
Dean Wells (M), Nisi Shawl, Scott Hamilton, Kat Richardson
Saturday
Deconstructing the Hero’s Journey
1:00pm – 2:00pm @ Cascade 5&6
Dean Wells (M), Evan J. Peterson, Kat Richardson
Autograph Session 1
2:00pm – 3:00pm @ Grand 2
Worldbuilding: Layer like an Onion – Writing Workshop
4:00pm – 5:00pm @ Cascade 12
Kat Richardson (M)
Reading: Kat Richardson
5:30pm – 6:00pm @ Cascade 2
Kat Richardson (M)
(I do have a session on Sunday, but it’s a closed crit for Fairwood Writers.)
My pseudonym, K. R. Richardson, has had a good day. This turned up on Friday at Publisher’s Marketplace (I’m told–I didn’t see it) and a shorter version appeared today at Quill & Quire:
K. R. Richardson’s novel SCATTERED OBJECTS, a gritty cop drama set in a futuristic, multi-layered and multi-racial society, where an idealistic rookie from a powerful family and the planet’s first cybernetically enhanced forensic investigator from an ethnic under-class must solve a brutal crime, to Rene Sears at Pyr Books, by Sally Harding at The Cooke Agency. (World English)
March 5, I’ll be teaching an intensive one-day Character development workshop for Clarion West in Seattle. Great characters don’t spring from the Character sheet; you fill the character sheet as you explore and discover great characters by writing. I’d love to see some of you guys there.
Just because I wanted to know, as of 17:30 Eastern Time yesterday (Saturday, January 28, 2017) Trump had signed 15 Executive Orders (“EOs”). That’s a first-week-in-office record, but not by a lot (Obama held the previous record with 13 in his first week.) [per Tamara Keith at NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/01/28/512055554/trump-signs-a-record-number-of-executive-actions-but-nothing-about-ethics ].
Executive Orders (also called Proclamations, Memoranda, and Letters depending on their scope and focus) are weird beasts. I’ll quote the Washington Post for a quick-and-dirty explanation: “Basically, an executive order is an official statement from the president about how the federal agencies he oversees are to use their resources.” [per Aaron Blake, The Fix, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/27/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-do-president-trumps-stack-up/ ]. Although they aren’t specifically named, they are derived from Article II of the Constitution, describing “executive actions.”
I had labored under the assumption that EOs were a late-coming development, but, no, George Washington started them with his April 22, 1793 instruction to federal officers to prosecute any citizens interfering with the war between England and France. (Congress was out of session, so Washington was empowered to act “in emergency.”) And they’ve been with us ever since. HowStuffWorks.com has a pretty clear and simple article by Dave Roos about EOs, their origins, and how they work (or don’t) here: http://people.howstuffworks.com/executive-order.htm
There’s a complete record of Executive Orders at the Presidency Project Online (compiled by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters and hosted by the University of California at Santa Barbara) at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php This is updated on the 20th of every month, so it doesn’t yet list Trump’s EOs, but you can find those published through January 28 here (but does not yet contain the Ethics Memorandum mentioned by NPR and referenced at the top of my post): http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/trump-executive-actions-orders/index.html
And there you have it: Executive Orders and Trump’s EOs, as of Sunday January 29, 2017, to the best of my reportorial ability to ferret out weird facts. (I feel the need to break out my mad Journalism skillz once in a while.)
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