RUMINATIONS Literary Newsletter by Jeff Richards, Vol. 2, No. 1 May, 2 2021 EDITORIAL My next book, Everyone Worth Knowing: A Short Story Collection, published by Circuit Breaker Books, is scheduled for release on June 1, 2021. You can pre-order the book on Amazon. In this newsletter, I include the book cover,… Read More »
Ruminations
Literary Newsletter by Jeff Richards, Vol. 1, No. 2 Listening to You
Lady Killer is now out in audiobook form. I’m pumped. The novel is written from three points of view: two women and one man. For the women parts, the narrator is Jer Adrianne Lelliott. Below is a brief interview of Jer along with a biography. The male narrator is Ramiz Mosef….Read more »
Literary Newsletter by Jeff Richards, Vol. 1, No. 1 March
I seem to have a thing for cows. Not only in Lady Killer, but in my first novel Open Country: A Civil War Novel in Stories (2015) and in my present effort, Nothing Left to Lose, a memoir of the sixties, cows play a weighty role. That is why I’m calling my newsletter Ruminations….Read more »
1862 Diary of Thomas Richards (Walker Price)
A page from the diary of Thomas Richards, my great-grandfather (Walker Price in “Open Country”). I found the diary a month ago after years of searching for it. It is 12 pages long and covers October 9, 1862-February 24, 1863. Below is a fragment: “Monday Morning Dec 31, 1862, in the line of battle… Read More »
40,000 Irish Confederates
In Open Country, there are many characters like in a Russian novel but I hope they are not hard to tell apart. For instance, there is only one Irish Confederate, Owen O’Grady. Robert E. Lee once said that his favorite soldier was the Scotch-Irish who came to the U.S. by way of Ireland, “because they… Read More »
My Relations in Chester, Ohio
All my Union relatives and their friends are from Chester, Ohio, a composite of the three small towns in Ohio, New Philadelphia, Urbana, and Ripley. My mom is from Urbana, Dad New Philadelphia, and nobody I know of from Ripley but I needed it because that’s where the novel takes place across the Ohio River… Read More »