It is our final week of introductions and we kick off by introducing the second last of our new writers and the seventh writer on the Yang Book – Richard Jay Parker. No stranger to writing, Richard has been around the block on his writer’s bike a few times.  Richard first caught our eye via Twitter and it was the right place at the right time, which has Richard here with us this year.

After taking things as far as he could with writing, editing and producing scripts Richard  left his TV agent in search of a literary one. He got one on the back of his first novel, Cockroach Surfing (the diary of a drug addled recluse living in a dystopian future on a diet of junk food and movies).  In 1999 he was called ‘soon-to-be-published’ by Publishing News.

Richard’s first book to print, Stop Me, was published in 2009.

When asked about collaborative writing Richard had this to say:

I’ve tried writing with other people in the past and have always disliked the process. If you’re sat in the same room as someone, even though you both have a common creative goal, you both have different writing rhythms. It’s always frustrated me so I like to do things at my own pace.

But Richard sees Chinese Whisperings as a world removed from any other collaborating writing he’s been part of.

I think the Chinese Whisperings global writing concept is a very 21st Century one and I like the idea of creating something based on material a writer on the other si exde of the globe has created without the restrictions a direct collaboration can sometimes have.

And the verdict?

Sounds like fun!

You can read Richard’s full bio here and explore the world of STOP ME.

Tomorrow we welcome back the divine Annie Evett – forever a sucker for a collaborative writing adventure.