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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Richard McGowan
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smashed-rat-on-press
Popular Answered Questions
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A Modest Collection of Slightly Shocking Fairy Tales
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2013
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Fumie's Teacup
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1995
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Majestic Freiks
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2008
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The Typographer's Left Shoe
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2011
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An Uncommon Surfeit of Lipstick
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2012
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The Fantastical Tale of Gronthilda and the Bream Stock
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2011
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Apple Blossom Dreams
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2002
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The Complete Lesser Works of Shenanigan Cheesefield
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2013
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Yvette's Gift and Other Stories
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2012
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The Little Book of Chrysean Tales
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2013
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Bio Update
In the FYI department... Now that GR has removed direct messaging, it could be more difficult to reach me, as well as other #SROP authors, and authors in general. (For people who like to send email to authors informing them about typographical errors and things like that.)
So, I have added a link to the #SROP contact page to my GR bio here, just in case anyone here needs the info. (For example, som Read more of this blog post »
So, I have added a link to the #SROP contact page to my GR bio here, just in case anyone here needs the info. (For example, som Read more of this blog post »
Richard’s Recent Updates
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| " Welcome to Blogging A to Z! My theme this year is Going Indie. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to check out the other participating blogs. So, I had (and have!) so many questions about indie publishing. The wonder and the curse of publishi..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| Really enjoyed this novel. Bookshops and small [coastal] towns are always draws for me... The writing is really quite nice: full of visual and other details that render the prose somewhat "cinematic" and easy to visualize. The romance in this one is ...more | |
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| Really enjoyable book. There are lots of interesting characters, an interesting town, and several interesting plot threads. I won't recap here... Anyway, now I'm looking/hoping for a sequel or next-in-series, but there doesn't seem to be one yet. Hop ...more | |
| " Welcome to Blogging A to Z! My theme this year is Going Indie. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to check out the other participating blogs. I've been taking my writing life seriously and really being a writer for about 12 years now. And one..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| Fairy Godreaders: Should we use lists? | 9 | 14 | Jul 11, 2014 04:57AM | |
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The Book Log
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| Fairy Godreaders: More discoveries | 7 | 11 | Mar 08, 2015 12:12PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: The Title Game - Part Deux | 8189 | 2711 | Nov 11, 2021 05:18AM | |
| Sci-Fi, fantasy a...: Who are you? | 1153 | 710 | Jan 04, 2023 08:23AM |
“Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.”
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“The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.”
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“Crowdfunding is the new black.”
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“Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.”
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“Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.”
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