Announcement Last Chance to Vote…for Me 9 Dec 2018 Now that I'm a finalist in Short Édition's story contest, it's time to beg for votes to give me a chance at the grand prize. This prize involves both money…
Announcement… A Smidgen of Good News…. 19 Nov 2018 This just popped into my email inbox, from Short Édition: Dear Richard Risemberg, Congratulations! Your story, “The Invalid,” has been selected as a finalist in the Set Stories Free…
Announcement “The Box Man” in Ginosko Literary Journal 8 Sep 2018 My short story, "The Box Man," has just been published by Ginosko Literary Journal, and you can read it for free on the very handsome PDF at: http://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko21.pdf (Page 92,…
Announcement On the Street 31 May 201831 May 2018 Just wanted to let you all know that Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, which has been foolish enough to publish two of my crime stories so far, is available at…
Author post… The Price of a Burger 8 May 20188 May 2018 Yes, it's ironic that I've titled a story thus, considering that I've been a vegetarian for fifty years, but...it's not about me. This is a rewrite of one chapter…
Author post To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum 20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018 The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…
Announcement Crime and Punishment, American-Style 31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018 Lock the doors and latch the windows: it's time to read more noir--if you dare! Yes, I've got another story published in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, available now for Kindle,…
Author post… Quickie Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s “Fury” 24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018 Just finished Salman Rushdie's Fury. This was my first taste of Rushdie, and it disappointed me. The protagonist is the usual brilliant academic undergoing a midlife crisis. (True, he is…
event Killin’ ‘Em at Noir Night 19 Oct 2017 Here's a pair of pix from yesterday evening's "Noir Night Assaults the Battery," a co-production (however small) by Crow Tree Books and Switchblade Magazine. I read "The Price of a…
Announcement… Voices in the Dark 28 Sep 20171 Oct 2017 Will you be in Los Angeles on October 18th? If you will be, lucky you: I am inviting you and yours to a reading of noir and crime fiction at…
