Announcement… Yes, Another Story Published! 16 Jan 2019 You heard right--I've managed to get another one published. This ones a flash fiction piece of one thousand words, released into the wild this morning at Front Porch Review. I…
Announcement Check Off Another One…. 11 Jan 2019 I'd like to bring your attention to yet another story published, this time in Canadian journal Scarlet Leaf Review, edited by Roxana Nastase. The story is one of the few…
Announcement… Another Story Published 12 Dec 201812 Dec 2018 The Fall 2018 issue of Mystery Tribune is now available on Amazon, and includes my story, "The Natural Order of Things." Which is a very different sort of noir, set in…
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… Another Fine Mess 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 My flash fiction piece, "The Invalid," has been published online in Short Édition, and is entered in one of their contests, so read it and maybe also vote for it,…
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 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,…
Announcement On Paper, In Stores 10 Nov 2017 Issue #3 of Scotch Rutherford's Switchblade, an Anthology of Noir, is out now, a fact which particularly interests me as it contains the first short story I have published in…
Announcement Poetry in Motion 1 Nov 20171 Nov 2017 I seem to be on a roll, as they say of both sandwiches and anyone engaged in something more or less demanding: the little poems I've been writing whilst in…
Author post Stranger than Fiction 6 Jul 20176 Jul 2017 Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, and you have to leave some of it out to make the generous lie of writing at all believable. A good example is…
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