Introductions

Hello everyone. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you enjoy the stories and poetry on the site. Most are new after just having had 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.

My work has appeared in DailyScienceFiction, Bunbury Magazine and anthologies by Third Flatiron Publishing and Leap Books to name but a few. This is always a privilege. I am the author of The Eternals Series with so much more in the making.

When not writing, I love reading, running, all sport, 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 feel free to find me on or in:

Twitter@Richard_Ankers

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Contact me@   richard@richardankers.com

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Writing Credits

Novels

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: On hold for rewrite): Authonomy.com by HarperCollins – Gold Medal Winner

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Short Fiction

The Dawntreader: The Bluebell (Date tba)

After the Pause: The Taken Hand (Dec 2020)

Love Letters To Poe: The Human in Me (Dec 2020)

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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Poetry

fēlan Issue 1: The Heat (poem) Not Quite (prose poem)

fēlan Issue 2: Nightly (poem)

fēlan Issue 3: Beautiful (poem) Smile (poem)

fēlan Issue 4: Wetted (poem) Melancholy Moon (poem)

fēlan Issue 5: NO! (poem) & Guest Judge

fēlan issue 10: Ignition (poem)

The Tophat Raven issue 1 (issuu.com): Lacrimosa (poem)/ My Angel (poem)/ Lost Gulls (haiku)

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