Richard R. Becker — 009

Much about the crafting of Short Stories. Richard reads from his Short Story Anthology called Fifty States, and also from his stalker novel, Born on Monday.

Richard has a long list of awards, and his books have plenty of reviews. His website is the best place to go for all of that.

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The conversations with Richard focused primarily on short stories. I was especially interested in that with him because that’s what I mostly write. His anthology is an idea of a story for every state. I also love to write about small towns. We had some great deconstruction.

Most of Richard’s writing, including the stories in the anthology, is in the Mystery/ Thriller genre. I’d go further, and say Psychological Thrillers are in there as well.

I can’t wait to have him on again so we can talk about the use of storytelling in marketing and for other reasons, as he is a commercial writer as well. His commercial writing and marketing business can be found at https://copywriteink.com/

I read my story called Little Time for Verymany, from March of 2024: