About

Crikey, you wanna know more? 

I have had six novels published, all are with the small press. I started selling short stories in 2001 and entered self publishing in 2004. At the same time, I ran one of the biggest writers groups on a Ning platform.

A small press publisher came across my second self published novel and offered me a contract. I used a pen name that I spent years building and it became known. This publisher convinced me to use my real name. It was difficult to rebuild and readers hadn't followed or didn't know about the name change. Two years ago I returned to my pen name (Richard Lee) and things started moving again and a few Facebook friends said: I wondered what happened to you.

I used to write only horror, but in the past few years, I've tried to move away from that. I tried my hand at Science Fiction (without the science, hence Science Fantasy) and I won SFReaders award.

Following this, I wrote a lot more pure SF short stories that found publication in Nebula Rift and other sites.

Recently, I discovered I like crime/thriller writing and recently completed a PI thriller, based in Japan. It's entered second edit stage and I'll complete the third edit, removing glue words and tweaking here and there. I am about to start book 2 once the editing is complete and it's ready for agents.

I have an outline system I created and it works well for me. I'm writing a non-fiction book on the use of this type of outline, and to show it works, I'm using it for my current SF werewolf trilogy. Unfortunately, this book is in pause mode. The outline book will contain images and a real life examples--if I can find a publisher for the series. 

This is my second non-fiction book. The first was an intermittent fasting diet book based on me. Real life examples.