It’s a funny world, and I don’t mean ha-ha funny, but epic-small funny. Stephen Dillon crossed my radar as a radical giver-of-time-for-stuff-bigger-than-himself by way of us both knowing Lee Murray. He’s the brains – and, let’s be honest, pretty much the muscle too – behind The Refuge Collection. Besides being an excellent collection of genre fiction set around a mythical town called Refuge, it’s a project that’s attracted a great many authors and artists to his banner to help out charity. Before we hit the pimp my ride part of the show, let’s do some quiet introductions… First up, tell us a little about how you got into this publishing-for-charity gig. Did you approach it as a writer, or from a different angle? Where did the idea come from? I was writing a bunch of stories at the same time, which Read More …

Lee’s posted an excellent review up on SQMag. I think this is the first review someone’s done of Night’s Champion, as a series. Now, I need to complete the trilogy. Leave that one with me. https://sqmag.com/2016/08/31/edition-28-book-review-nights-champion-series-by-richard-parry/

I like covers. I especially like covers when I get to work with people that are basically distilled talent.  Karl did the Night’s Fall covers while in a jungle (true story), trekking out to feed me samples from whatever cobbled together Wi-Fi he could find.  I think you’ll agree that despite the jungle environs, the results are spectacular.  He’s given me artwork that resulted in some spectacular wrap-around covers for the physical editions. E.g., the paperback: Or the hard cover: Enjoy 🙂

Yo. You can now get your shiny new copy of Night’s Fall.  Go on, click.  (Hopefully) by the time you read this, you’ll be able to get digital, paperback, and hardcover editions there. It’s been five years since Val climbed out of the ruins of Biomne’s research facility. Five years of running from the creature he’s become. Five years of trying to turn the curse into a blessing. He’s scratching out a living in the heart of Chicago, trying to make ends meet while saving those he can. His friend John has found a home with girlfriend Sky. The three of them share an apartment in a city too big to care. Stories of Val’s dark gift have reached across the seas to Talin Moray, a man who will stop at nothing to possess the power of the Night. Talin Read More …

Night’s Fall is … almost finished. By “almost,” I mean that the manuscript has survived the cutting harpies of narrative feedback, and is on its way to getting a series of quality edits.  The story is more or less hammered home.  Fuck yeah. Believe me when I tell you, the hard stuff is done. I showed a draft cover to you before.  Since then I’ve been in touch with the talented Karl Thiart who has done me a glorious cover.  Sure, I can’t give you the book yet, but how about the paperback cover?

Related to my previous post on looking after the body, you also need to look after the mind. I play video games. A little while ago Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed: Unity.  This thing was a steaming pile of shit — buggy at release, and had great “features” like always-on voice chat so some of the multiplayer missions had people mouth breathing into your living room.  I normally give Ubisoft a bit of a pass – the company makes great games where chicks don’t have their breasts hanging out.  Hell, they made the amazing Child of Light, and let me tell you that being a fairy tale princess is an outstanding experience.  But Unity was a sin. A friend got their newer Syndicate game.  I kept that thing at arm’s length, but he wouldn’t shut up about it, so I grabbed it Read More …