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The Safety Expert

2011 |

The Safety Expert by Doug Richardson Ben Keller lives life by one simple rule. Safety first. Ben is keenly aware of life’s hidden dangers. Ben never smokes. Ben always uses the crosswalk. Ben always drives within the speed limit. He has to be because safety is his business. From his home in Simi Valley, [...]

True Believers

1998 | Thriller

True Believers by Doug Richardson ebook coming soon! Senator Will Sullivan and his wife Gwen are a golden couple, facing a glorious future few Americans will ever know. Now their most cherished dream is about to become reality – at a price too terrible to imagine. The child the Sullivans have long prayed for will [...]

Dark Horse

1996 |

Dark Horse by Doug Richardson Crusading Texas lawyer Mitchell Dutton is running for the U.S. Congress – and is a virtual shoo-in come November. But his opponent has different plans. The opposition nominee, Shakespeare “Shakes” McCann, is an almost total unknown – a dark horse candidate with no past and no principles who has come [...]

"A high tension, riveting and gritty thriller. Richardson unearths complex and sometimes frightening characters in an imperfect, creepy world where no one is safe" (Maya Fleischmann, IndieReader Review)

"I forgot to breathe... reading as fast as I could so as to get to what would happen next!" (Brenda Ballard for Readers Favorite)

"Murder, madness and mayhem come together in this original novel about two men pushed beyond their limits." (Amanda Richards, Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer)

A Rock and a Hard Place, Part 1.
May 14, 2012
In this particular post, I need to keep the names under wraps because some of the following are still “A” players. So for now, I’ll just say that an unnamed studio hired me to rewrite an unnamed script for an unnamed star. It was a two-step deal. One draft plus a set of revisions. I [...]
No Pain, No Gain?
May 07, 2012
I adore movie geeks. You know those guys. They’re the fan boys who, when not hooked up to their Xboxes and PlayStations or planning a two-week road trip to the next Comic-Con, take to the internet to blog or comment on the multitude of bulletin boards dedicated to discussing, dissing, or elevating movies. Were I [...]
Swear I Didn’t Do It.
April 30, 2012
I’m a big Michael Douglas fan. Have been since I was a boy and he was playing Karl Malden’s sidekick in The Streets of San Francisco. So I thought it was pretty cool when my agent asked if I’d be interested in writing a movie for his company. At the time, Michael Douglas was producing [...]
The Sex Factor.
April 23, 2012
*Warning. The following blog, though accurate and intended as comical, absurdist entertainment, uses offensive language and depicts crude behavior. Click BACK now or hold your complaint. It was an impromptu moment. I was connecting with a movie veep for lunch. After I’d swung by his office, we planned to stroll across the lot to [...]
Misunderestimated.
April 16, 2012
On one of my early career assignments, I became acquainted with an older, gregarious producer who, by my count, had made nearly twenty movies without a single one having been a hit until his most recent. And but for one of the films that was considered a quasi-cult classic, the rest were as unremarkable as [...]
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