Rick R. Reed

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  • 51 / Male
  • Seattle, Washington, US
  • Last Login: 7/5/2009

Interests

  • General

    Read the first chapter of HIGH RISK, my thriller about a bored housewife, a secret sex life, a handsome, but twisted, stranger…and a journey into nightmare.

    Watch the sexy, scary trailer for HIGH RISK below!

    Order HIGH RISK by clicking here!

    Read the first chapter of IM, my thriller/horror novel about a gay serial killer who uses internet hook up sites to find, lure, and kill his victims. Watch the chilling trailer for IM below!

    You can now order IM from Amazon at 32% off! Click here to order!

    Read the first chapter of In the Blood, my tragic vampire love story (coming out in September 2007).  

    Watch the shocking trailer for IN THE BLOOD below!

    Read the first chapter of Deadly Vision, my novel about a small town single mother suddenly gifted (or cursed?) with psychic abilities, which enmesh her in the gruesome disappearances and killings of two teenage girls in her Ohio River town. This book is slated for a January 2008 release.

    Get caught up in the mystery of Rick R. Reed's latest tale of dark suspense, DEADLY VISION

  • Music

    Check out my latest book, BASHED, about a horrific gay hate crime and its aftermath. It’s a ghost story/love story/thriller all in one. Or visit me at www.rickrreed.com

    Watch the haunting trailer for BASHED:
  • Movies

    Almost as much as I love books, I love movies. Does that say something about a need to escape from everyday life? I have too many favorites to list, but here's a sampling of the first several that come to mind: The Night of the Hunter, Carnival of Souls, Rosemary's Baby, Audition, Blue Velvet, The Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, Goodfellas, Valley of the Dolls, In America, The Eye, The Sixth Sense, The Birds, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Living Dead, Rear Window, Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, All About My Mother, Bubble, and many others.
  • Books

    Favorite authors include, in no particular order: James Purdy, Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, Denise Mina, Stephen King, Truman Capote, Oscar Wilde, Flannery O'Connor, E. Annie Proulx, and many, many others...

    Dead End Street My New Horror Novel
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

  • Heroes

    My partner, Bruce and my son, Nick are the first two who come to mind. I also admire the bravery of people living with HIV and AIDS.....

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: East Liverpool, OH
  • Orientation: Gay
  • Body type: 5' 11" / Athletic
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Zodiac Sign: Cancer
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Education: College graduate
  • Occupation: writer

Schools

  • Miami University-Oxford

    • Oxford, OH
    • Graduated: 1981
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bachelor's Degree
    • Major: Creative Writing
    • Minor: Mass Communications
    • Clubs: Editor of literary magazine, Creative Arts Board
    1977 to 1981
  • East Liverpool High School

    • East Liverpool, OH
    • Graduated: 1977
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: High School Diploma
    1974 to 1977

Networking

Blurbs

About me:

I am a writer of dark, usually gay-themed suspense and horror fiction. I’ve been called the “Stephen King of gay horror” (Unzipped magazine, October 2006) and my work has been sold in translation, optioned for film, and garnered very favorable reviews and sales. Although I consider myself primarily a novelist, my short stories have appeared in more than twenty anthologies. To check out my work, visit my website, where you can see my latest news, view book trailers, read excerpts, synopses, and reviews, and order autographed copies.

I live in Seattle, WA with my partner, Bruce, and our Boston Terrier, Lily. When I’m not writing, I’m usually still immersed in fictional worlds, via either books, movies, or theater.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Print Books

Click on hyperlinked titles below for more information and to purchase your copy.
M4M A love story in two parts; contains VGL Male Seeks Same and NEG UB2, previously available only in e-books format. This is the paperback collection.
Bashed A horror/romance novel about a horrific gay hate crime and its aftermath.
Dead End Street Young adult horror novel about five misfit kids, an abandoned house, and the secret threat that awaits them there.
Orientation A paranormal love story and thriller that combines reincarnation, sexual orientation, AIDS, and crystal meth addiction.
High Risk A sexually-addicted housewife, a twisted and handsome stranger, and a journey into nightmare.
Deadly Vision A small town single mother is suddenly cursed with psychic ability and begins having disturbing visions into the murders of teenage girls, jeopardizing herself and her young son.
In the Blood My tragic vampire love story takes place in 1950s Greenwich Village and modern-day Chicago.
IM A serial killer is on the loose and preying on gay men via Internet hook-up sites.
A Face Without a Heart A modern-day version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray .
Penance A madman is preying on the street kids of uptown Chicago.
Obsessed A serial killer who believes he’s a vampire causes a bloody crime rampage in Chicago. Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror Ten of my scariest and most provocative stories…under one cover.

E-Books
Click on hyperlinked titles below for more information and to purchase your copy. Most of the print books above are also available in E-Book editions, readable on your computer or dedicated e-Book reader like the Sony or Amazon’s Kindle. The titles denoted with an asterisk are available exclusively as e-Books.
High Risk
Deadly Vision
In the Blood
IM
Orientation
Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror
* Riding the El at Midnight Strangers on a train at midnight: a journey to sexual heaven or simply hell?
* Fugue Who is the master and who is the slave?
* How I Became Sexually Irresistible A young man wishes to be sexually irresistible to anyone he desires and discovers the old saw is true: be careful what you wish for.
* VGL Male Seeks Same Ethan Schwartz is alone…until he discovers that, online, he can be anyone he wants. What happens when his online persona and his real self collide?
* Ambrose and the Waif Two lovers plot a murder and get caught up in a web of deceit, mystery, and intrigue that even they can’t untangle.
*Through the Closet Door The difficult journey out of the closet for a young married man.
*MAN-Omorphosis A ribald take on Kafka’s Metamorphosis that begins with the line: "I awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find my penis had transformed itself into a vagina."
*Pottery Peter A very erotic memory story about a young college man working in an industrial pottery one summer and the love/lust triangle that develops.


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Who I'd like to meet:

Charles Bukowski, Lily Tomlin, John Waters are the first three who come to mind. Lunch? But if I can be more all-encompassing, I would say that I'd also like to meet other writers/readers of horror, suspense, sick and twisted humor, and GLBT literature (that johnny-come-lately genre). I'd also like to meet agents, editors, predators, members of the lunatic fringe, closet Judge Judy fans, bookies, hipsters, whores, acrobats, linguists, and people who buy the painting that matches the sofa. Any of the above can sign up for my Yahoo Announcements newsletter by clicking below.

Comments

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  • Jul 6 2009 8:46 AM

    Hello !
    I thank you for the add. You are welcome !
    Don't be a stranger. Keep in touch.
    Kate
  • Jul 6 2009 7:00 AM

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    Coming Soon at The Wild Rose Press
  • Jul 6 2009 5:13 AM

    Hola, te invitamos el sabado que entra, 11 de julio, Brixton Pub QRO

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  • Jul 6 2009 12:33 AM

    Me*LIKE!!!!!
  • Jul 5 2009 10:55 AM

  • Jul 5 2009 2:23 AM

    Happy 4th of July!!!!  :-)
  • Jul 5 2009 1:30 AM

    Happy Fourth Of July, 2009!
    (((I hope you're having a blast!)))
  • Jul 4 2009 10:34 PM


     

    Have a great Fourth, Rick
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    I hope you have a sparkling July 4th weekend!

    Lynda
  • Jul 4 2009 3:51 PM


    While enjoying our cookouts and fireworks, And sales at the mall,
    Let us take a moment
    To reflect upon the small group of people
    Who stood up to a giant.

    Happy 4Th to you and yours.

    E.



    When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw of
  • Jul 4 2009 1:18 PM

    HAPPY 4th OF JULY

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  • Jul 4 2009 4:22 AM


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    HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!!

  • Jul 4 2009 4:15 AM

  • Jul 4 2009 4:15 AM

    Howdy Rick!!!

    Happy 4th from OH-IO

    Hugs
    Richie


  • Jul 3 2009 11:48 PM

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  • Jul 3 2009 6:18 PM


    Few will have the greatness
    To bend history itself;
    But each of us can work
    To change a small portion of events,
    And in the total of all those acts
    Will be written
    The history of this generation.

    Robert F. Kennedy



    Wishing you a great Holiday Weekend.

    Your friend Elisa.
  • Jul 3 2009 12:30 PM

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  • Jul 3 2009 2:48 AM



    Matters of the heart
    Understood by the mind alone
    Are nothing but rhetoric.

    E.



    Have a good night,
    My dear friend.
    Don’t let the day’s
    Troubles wound your dreams.

    Kiss.
  • Jul 3 2009 2:20 AM

  • Jul 2 2009 3:57 AM

    Happy Birthday ^_^
  • Jul 2 2009 3:37 AM


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    A LITTLE EYE CANDY FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!
  • Jul 2 2009 3:21 AM

    Happy Birthday Rick...remember the rules say you have to grow old nothing says you have to grow up!
  • Jul 2 2009 3:11 AM