Born in the nation's capital, Richard grew up in urban Chicago. He wrote his first short story in the third grade. Having earned a degree in English summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he wrote screenplays for over a decade. But when an awesome idea for an epic fantasy series came to him, he returned to his first love—prose fiction—and has never looked back. "Assassin Royale" is his fourth novel.
