I write books featuring bioengineered pygmy elefantkin short-order cooks. Yep—that's a thing I do. Also, I see moons.

And when not shifting unpredictably into third person, Richard lives with his wife, two lovely daughters, some cats, and three ducks, in a magical bookstore that is—quite frankly—the only thing that stands between you and raging hordes of zombies who haven’t read a good book in, like, forever.

He has won the Independent Publisher Book Award Medal (for juvenile fiction), the National Indie Excellence Award (for juvenile fiction), the Moonbeam Children's Book Award Medal (for pre-teen fantasy). He's received a Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award Honorable Mention (for middle-grade/young adult), was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award (for young adult), and has been a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award (for young adult).