Introductions
Hello everyone.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you enjoy the stories and poetry posted here. Most of the works are now new after having given the site a seven-year makeover.
As for me, what can I say? I live to write and write to live. The best of both worlds. I write far too much and hoard most of what I do, hence here. My website is a little place to highlight, and hopefully have people enjoy, the ones that got away.
I am the English author of The Eternals dark fantasy series – (Please see more about my Novels on their own page).. I have featured in Expanded Field Journal, Love Letters To Poe, After The Pause, and feel privileged to have appeared in many more.
When not writing, I love reading, running, all sports, and walking through beautiful scenery. If I lived in view of a mountain with a stream running through the bottom of my garden, I’d never resurface. I have the world’s worse memory and have caffeine-laced blood.
I have two sayings: 1. I’d rather be a happy pauper than a wealthy zombie. 2. Never give up on your dreams, and never let anyone tell you you’re not good enough. You can be.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you enjoy the poetry and prose on the site.
PS: You’re supposed to write these in third person, and professionally I would, but when dealing with friends, that’s far too impersonal.
Yours Sincerely
Richard.
Richard M. Ankers
Please find me on:
Goodreads Author Page: Richard M. Ankers
Amazon Author Page: Richard M. Ankers
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Writing Credits
Novels
Britannia Unleashed: Published by Next Chapter (LATEST RELEASE!)
The Eternals: Book 1 In The Eternals Series: Published by Next Chapter
Hunter Hunted: Book 2 In The Eternals Series: Published by Next Chapter
Into Eternity: Book 3 In The Eternals Series: Published by Next Chapter
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The Snow Lily (UPDATE for those kind souls who have asked: On hold for rewrite): Authonomy.com by HarperCollins – Gold Medal Winner
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Collections
The Poetry of Pronouns: She. He. They.: Published by Next Chapter / Co-Author Gina Maria Manchego
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Short Fiction
Fast Flesh Literary Journal: The Scallop Opens
Poetry as Promised: Like Milk
White Enso (kaidankai): Late One Summer (Also in Audio)
DarkWinter Literary Magazine: Staring at a World Gone By
Compass Rose: The Lost and the Dreamers
The Violet Hour: Louvred
Dream Noir: And. . .
Noctivagant Press: To Indigo Lost
Suburban Witchcraft Issue 3: Of Watching Mercury Flowers Bloom
Verum Literary Press: The Lighthouse Moon
Flora Fiction Literary Magazine: Unconventional Rita and the Water Fountain
Paragraph Planet: The Visitor
MasticadoresIndia: Ghosting
DarkWinter Literary Magazine: The Butterfly Heart Paradox
Filter Coffee Zine: Truths Told
Madhouse Books: Irregular Constructions (The Clockwork Chronicles Anthology)
Lothlorien Poetry Journal: Moonscapes and Melancholy
Lothlorien Poetry Journal: The Endless Night
Noctivagant Press (Issue 3): Cooler than the Sun
Typeslash Review: The Gossamer Curtain
White Enso (kaidankai): This Dust Between Us (Also in Audio)
Noctivagant Press (Issue 2): The Night Rain
Expanded Field Journal: Featherless
Noctivagant Press (Issue 1): Ancient in Ultramarine
After the Pause: The Taken Hand
Love Letters To Poe: The Human in Me (Also in Audio)
Distant Shore Publishing: Is This Leningrad?
Black Poppy Review: The Watched
The Dawntreader: Oaken Yearnings
Bunbury Magazine: The Longest Fall
Once Upon A Broken Dream: Creativia Anthology: Sapphire Heartbreaks
Phantaxis Issue 1: In Glass
DailyScienceFiction.com: Android One
The Fable Online: Phoenix Burned
Specklit.com: Cold Freedoms / Racing the Dead / Mermaid’s Tears
Devolution Z: Nocturne
Nonlocal Science Fiction Issue 4: Filtered Blue
Third Flatiron Publishing ‘The Time it Happened’ anthology: Armada Of Snow
Leap Books ‘Fright Before Christmas’ anthology: Clockwork Christmas
Litbreak.com: Primal Actions / Lost Lights / Glass Spiders
The New Accelerator Issue 4, iTunes digital magazine: Iced Hearts At World’s End
The Tophat Raven issue 2 (issuu.com): Hope
Quaterreads.com (now defunct) : Hush, Little Darlin’ / In The Arms Of A Dream / Spectral Nazis & The Empress Of Steam / Washed Away
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Published to Spillwords.com
The Last
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Monthly/Regular Contributor
Gobblers and Masticadores
MasticadoresUSA
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Co-Written
Livina Press: With Gina Maria Manchego – Through Rain and Storm and Sea (April 2023)
Impspired: With Gina Maria Manchego – The Winter Lily
Lothlorien Poetry Journal: With Gina Maria Manchego – Other Autumns
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Poetry
Poetry as Promised Issue 3: The Frosting
Suburban Witchcraft Issue 4: The Pain and The Calm
Ephemeral Elegies: Crumbling
Molecule: Ice Sheets
fēlan Issue 1: The Heat (poem) Not Quite
fēlan Issue 2: Nightly
fēlan Issue 3: Beautiful (poem) Smile
fēlan Issue 4: Wetted (poem) Melancholy Moon
fēlan Issue 5: NO! (poem) & Guest Judge
fēlan issue 10: Ignition
The Tophat Raven issue 1: Lacrimosa (poem)/ My Angel (poem)/ Lost Gulls (haiku)
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Thank you for reading
Richard
Richard M. Ankers
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