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05.10.06
This site now has a forum - point your browsers to http://www.johnrickards.com/forum/ and go take a look.
I realised a couple of weeks ago that I was kinda missing having a central place where people could all hang out and talk bollocks, which the old Circus briefly provided. There’s other people’s backblogs and a couple of other author forums (Mark’s being the main one), but it’s not quite the same - you can’t really hold a conversation across four sites and Mark and others have, y’know, readers who have the temerity to talk about that author’s stuff.
I have no readers and thus no such problems, so I’m tacking on a forum with the low, low aim of providing a knitting-free place to sound off or take the piss as and when anyone feels like it. No pressure on traffic or posting regularity, two things which doomed the old Circus. This one can trundle along happily enough regardless. Hopefully, it’ll be as entertaining and useful as the MC was earlier in the year.
I asked a few people to give it a bit of a shakedown before BCon and make sure everything worked - my thanks to them. Now it’s open for all. If you like it, if you want to see more people around, by all means tell people. Tell your friends, post it in your blog, wear it on a t-shirt.
Books
A dozen people trapped in a roadhouse during a storm, three corpses buried in a field, and a good chance no one's going to make it through the night alive. Burial Ground is the last Alex Rourke novel.
One mistake. Seven years of a child's life. In The Darkness Inside, Alex finds out the missing kid in a case he worked on in his FBI days may not have been killed after all. And that the man he crossed the line to put away may not have worked alone.
A single bullet blows Alex's world to pieces. He finds himself in the strange Vermont town of Bleakwater Ridge trying to piece together what's happened, alone except for the dead and The Touch Of Ghosts.
A silent murder suspect, caught red-handed at the scene, draws former FBI agent Alex Rourke back to his home town of Winter's End in northern Maine. But it soon becomes clear that there's far more to the place, and to his own past, than he ever realised.
Short Fiction
Wish, featuring gay Nazis and the terror of living urban myth, appears in the Ken Bruen-edited Dublin Noir, as well as in 2008's Best British Mysteries anthology.
Twenty Dollar Future, about the tragic making of a child soldier in east Africa, appears in Jen Jordan's Expletive Deleted anthology.