Rish's Ramblings

One of you keeps suggesting I create a physical copy of one (or all) of my books.  I have fought, screaming, weeping, and filling my diaper the whole time. But no more. As you know, Clob,...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/only-real-on-paper.html

And you, what do you want to see? Here's another Outfield Excursions between Marshal and me, over at his Journey Into... podcast.   Once again, we've got a Roger Corman-directed Ray Mil...

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These are the photos that go with Rish Outcast EPISODE 279: UNDER THE COVERS: THE COVERAGE CONTINUES.  1.   The damage doesn't look as bad from up here. Big's attempt Final vers...

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 ...Quid pro quo, yes or no?" If you didn't recognize that quote, then you need to watch it again.  Little Starling, fly, fly, fly. I write A LOT of stories.  So many that I often forget...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/i-tell-you-things-you-tell-me-things.html

Rish and Big Anklevich get together to talk about the cover art they created for Rish's stories, mostly in 2023. Apparently, some of Rish's past covers were so bad, that even he couldn't let ...

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I first started publishing on Amazon in 2013, and did quite a bit of it early on*, but then slowed way down.  These things are habit-forming (just ask Big Anklevich, who in 2024, has put out fif...

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In 2021, in this very library, I wrote an introduction to a short story collection featuring girls and women, to be titled "Female Protagonist."  And then it sat.  And sat.   And sat. ...

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No, not "I've been a very naughty girl!"  What kind of blog do you think this is? Famous photo of Adolf Hitler writing "Mein Cramp" on his laptop.  He was fond of Lenovos, oddly enough. A...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-sweetest-words-of-all.html

Like I mentioned earlier, I've been upgrading the cover art on some of my available stories, and in doing so, I've stumbled upon some tales that I thought were out there, but turned out not to ha...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/wont-you-tell-me-now-whos-bad.html

The month is half done, and I haven't gotten to one of the big goals I set for myself, namely putting out a story collection (either Female Protagonist or Geriatric Protagonist).  But Big Anklev...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/but-whos-protagonist.html

Rish presents the second section of his novella "Ten Thousand Coffins."Medtech Brook Lisst has seen the hand of the intruder on the ship . . . a vampire's hand. But vampires don't really exis...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/rish-outcast-276-ten-thousand-coffins-ii.html

In case you're interested, the audiobook version of the Lara & the Witch story "HERE TO HELP" is available over on the ever-contemptible Audible.com.  This is the story I wrote only last year ab...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/still-here-to-help.html

Voltaire famously said "PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF GOOD," and I've never forgotte--  Okay, that's a lie.  I've heard that quote a half dozen times over the years, but always forget it, much less w...

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 Doin' alright, I gotta say.

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Rish and Marshal got together to go the annual writers conference, and talk about the highs and lows, the encouragement, the Energon collected, and their brains filling up.   And hey, no ...

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Howdy!  These are the cover images that Big and I talk about in the Outcast episode "Under the Covers" (RISH OUTCAST 177), with convenient corresponding numbers. 0 Yes, I know it's awful; ...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/under-covers-image.html

Between us, Big Anklevich and I have done about a hundred blog posts about cover art in the new(ish) year.  This is among them. AI-created art has a couple of pesky hurdles it needs to over...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/give-this-man-hand.html

Big and I are back together, doing what we do best, on the newest Anklecast (Episode 65 ).  Big tells the tale "Servants of the Master," his dip of the toe into the realm of vampire fiction (the...

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If I had a dollar for every time I'd gone to the Quiet Floor of the library, but forgotten to put my phone on silent, or opened Instagram and some ultra-loud TikTok clip started blaring, or simpl...

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Last year, I wrote my Quardel Quell story "WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE," and while I can't claim that it won the contest, it was a winner in our hearts. Okay, I legally can't say that either, but it...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-only-instrument-accordion-may-mock.html

A month or four back, I published "BUNDLING MADE EASY," a Lara & the Witch story that, strangely enough, depicted Lara Demming for the first time since I created her in 2013.  Depicted her visua...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/lookin-good-good-lookin.html

For my Christmas episode(s) of the Outcast this year, I ran my Dead & Breakfast story, "THERE'LL BE SCARY GHOST STORIES."  Among all this publishing (and upgrading covers), I put it out for purc...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/but-will-there-be-ghost-stories.html

I have been REALLY good to go to the library these past two weeks.  I ought to give Big Anklevich the credit or blame, since he just keeps writing and publishing and, I dunno, swinging from the ...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-person-falling-here-is-me.html

Today we've got a new cover for "WHO CAN IT BE NOW?" one of my personal favorites, as I wrote it for my ailing uncle, who is no longer with us. If you recall, this is the tale I told of a recov...

http://rishoutfield.blogspot.com/2024/03/stay-away-dont-you-invade-my-home.html

I was going through old covers to my stories, including this one from "Library Week," and when I went to replace it, discovered it had never been published in the first place. Actually, that...

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