Jeff Richards

“Jeff Richards has presented us with a cavalcade of lonely laughable losers. Most of the men in these 17 stories are ruined by circumstance, parental units, lovers, bullies, or disastrous decisions. Others are Toxic Masculinity squared.  The women are stronger, wiser, and better off alone. Part train wreck, part sinking of the Titanic, you can’t stop watching their decline and fall.”

~ Richard Peabody, ed. Gargoyle Magazine

“Everyone Worth Knowing takes a hard look at the down-and-out, the depressed, the dilapidated, and the destitute. In these seventeen stories, we meet men broken by their own hardness, turned upside down by their own self-destruction, their own misguided efforts to seem unbreakable. What Jeff Richards offers us is a raw and unflinching collection that asks us to see the ugly truth about how some men are and how, despite that, there might just be one small sliver of a thing inside them that makes them worthy of something like redemption”

~ Jon Chopan, author of Veterans Crisis Hotline

“Jeff Richards’ LADY KILLER is fast-paced, assured storytelling that dramatically brings us into the intimate lives of couples, now at the edge of their forties, who have been friends since high school in Takoma Park, Maryland, a town at the edge of Washington, DC. Richards’ fluid sentences and evocatively-written dialogue reveal men and women contending with the pressures of marriage and parenthood, with jealousy, anger, and infidelity, and—not least—murder..”

~ Merrill Leffler, Mark the Music

“It’s hard to put LADY KILLLER down. The characters are original yet all too familiar. We recognize friends and spouses, neighbors whom we like and don’t, and we shudder at their actions and frailties. Written with empathy, Lady Killer is exquisitely human, fragile, vicious at times, and kind at others. Jeff Richards’ latest work is a compulsively readable look into our own seamy behaviors and joyous willingness to engage in destructive yet irresistible behavior.”

~ Thierry Sagnier

“This extraordinary book about the American Civil War offers both the concision of the well-made story and the sweep of the epic. A remarkable achievement.”

~ Porter Shreve, The End of the Book

“Jeff Richards’ Open Country may take place during the Civil War, but at its heart the novel shares the drama of human experience as though it is taking place right outside your door. It could be you. It could be me.”

~ Adam Braver, Mr. Lincoln’s Wars