Wicker Park, IL - Lived here for 12 years
Head on over to my blog to read the full article, but I had a blast in my old stomping grounds, Wicker Park today. Put up posters for Transubstantiate, handed out 200 postcards, and bought a TON of books!
Reading at Archie’s – Sunday, July 18th, Chicago
•July 14, 2010 • Leave a Comment
I’ll be reading this Sunday from my new novel, Transubstantiate. If you’re in the area, come on out.
PFR DIVE READING
Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010
Time: 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Location: Archie’s Iowa Rockwell Tavern
Street: 2600 W Iowa
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Here’s the link to the Event page on FB too:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130679203628854
Buy a signed paperback copy of Transubstantiate directly from me, the author.
•July 12, 2010 • 2 Comments
Personally inscribed
Would you like a signed copy of Transubstantiate, a personalized copy of the paperback? If you are interested, click the button below, and go to Paypal, and I’ll take care of it. If you want a personal inscription, leave it in the comments window when you pay. Otherwise, it’ll come signed, with no inscription. Thanks for your support.
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100 signed, limited editions…are signed!
•July 9, 2010 • Leave a CommentHere are some pictures from the signing of my 100 S/L. Mailed back to OWP today, Fed Ex, so if the CDs are all ready to go, then they should be in the mail in a week or so:
Get them while they last at http://www.otherworldpublications.com!
Glowing review at Rotten Leaves
•July 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment
- Review at Rotten Leaves
Fantastic three-headed review of Transubstantiate at Rotten Leaves, by Axel Taiari, Christopher Dwyer and Nik Korpon (Otherworld Publications label mate). http://www.rottenleaves.com/review-transubtantiate-by-richard-thomas/ Axel: “…while other authors could easily struggle with unleashing multiple points of view at such pace, Richard manages to make it all fit together, make sense, build characters, craft a vivid world, each new chapter giving you an additional piece of the puzzle, changing the whole picture, again and again, until the epilogue where everything falls into place and the reader is allowed to breathe once more.” Christopher: “It’s not just well-written and beautiful. It’s the ambition behind the style, the scope; it’s the way Richard blends sci-fi with noir with thrills with horror with a cherry-tip drop of literary goodness…” Nik: “One of the things that really struck me…was this seamless melding of multiple genres while still retaining what sycophants would say is a literary voice, meaning it’s a very well-written novel while still having the constant clicking of impending doom in the background.”
For the full reviews go to the link above or click on the picture.
Five star review at Bitten By Books
•July 2, 2010 • Leave a Comment
5/5 at BBB for Transubstantiate
BITTENBYBOOKS.COM – 5/5 tombstones
I’m very excited that I just got my first post-release review at Bitten by Books, and she really loved it. She actually went out and bought a copy too.
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=26303
“The calculated gestures, gasps and sighs, or the cold bloodied neck snaps and shanking – all were beautifully written and crafted with clever lunacy…This is Richard Thomas’s debut novel, and if this is the norm for him, I will be eagerly awaiting his next novel with dark fascination.”
Early praise for Transubstantiate
•June 26, 2010 • 1 CommentWe have several blurbs in for Transubstantiate. Thank you to all of the authors that took the time to respond.
“Transubstantiate is, is — it’s a visual: that 2001 baby opening its eyes in the monolith, but the monolith is shrouded in this story of loss and hope and identity, and encoded in the cadence of that story, if you listen close, is the genetic map with which to draw this impossible celestial infant, opening its eyes on the page, looking right into you.”
—Stephen Graham Jones
All The Beautiful Sinners, Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories, Ledfeather, The Ones That Got Away
“Transubstantiate is an intricately-woven dystopian thriller, with every thread pulled tight. This is a solid debut from Richard Thomas.”
—Craig Clevenger
The Contortionist’s Handbook, Dermaphoria
“Richard Thomas’s Transubstantiate constructs a collection of voices that reveals a disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty. The novel’s island paradise, its imprisoned inhabitants, and the digital presence that works to control them, merge with ancient forces of rite and belief to create a surreal and devastating collage. This is a work that captures a world we almost know, its realities enough to raise an uneasy sense of potentiality.”
—Karen Brown
Pins and Needles, The Best American Short Stories 2008 (contributor)
“Told through various shadowy narrators, Transubstantiate is a trippy, intriguing novel that forecasts dystopia for our near-future. Thomas successfully blends several genres here—noir, literary fiction, sci-fi—all with abrasive, haunting language.”
—Joey Goebel
Torture the Artist, The Anomalies, Commonwealth
