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.

In those preceding ten years Richard wrote a manuscript a year, had ludicrously close calls with agents and publishers and came to see how much he enjoyed constructing the plots of thrillers.  If he has to be pigeonholed, then he’s most comfortable with this genre, exploring twisted concepts beneath a popular but broad umbrella.

A second thriller is now complete and  and book 3 is well underway.

Richard lives in Salisbury (UK) and has a toilet seat decorated with rejection slips.

Richard has been nominated for an Author Blog award at CompletelyNovel.com. Please visit the site and vote for Richard!

Soon to be written – The Yang Book, 2010

Stop Me
DARK THRILLER:  Leo Sharpe’s life is shattered when his wife Laura suddenly disappears. His desperate need to find her turns to obsession when he becomes convinced she’s the latest victim of The Vacation Killer who has claimed eleven lives already – is Laura going to be the twelfth? The MO is the same every time – a woman disappears and within hours inboxes around the world receive a threatening email. A few days later, grim evidence of the victim’s death is delivered to the police. But in Laura’s case, nothing is sent.  For Leo, the clock is ticking – he needs to do everything in his power to stop the killer before it’s too late.  Published by Allison & Busby (2009)

Richard Jay Parker

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