Richard White

March of the Writers — Day 28: Dream On

✨✍️ March of the Writers — Day 28 by Richard White Dream On Read on Substack ✨✍️ Dreams don’t always arrive quietly. Sometimes they build over time — layer by layer — until one day you realize they’ve become a roadmap. My dreams as a writer …

Why Espionage Thrillers Still Matter

As part of my MFA program, I’ve been digging into the business and craft of espionage and speculative thriller writing—looking at how the genre works, who publishes it, who represents it, and why readers keep returning to stories about intelligence, secrets, and shadows. Image by Angelo Scarcella from Pixabay …

This and That March of the Writers – Day 8

MOTW – This or That This is one of those prompts that quietly reveals how writers work behind the scenes. Our habits, preferences, and creative rhythms shape how stories come to life. Here’s where I land on today’s This or That. 📚 Physical vs DigitalI …

March of the Writers – Day 5 – Your Origins Story.

Origins Story: Where the Writing Began Like a lot of writers, I can trace the moment the writing bug bit me. I was a teenager in a mental health retreat. One of the case workers there encouraged me to start writing down how I felt. …

The Builder Phase: Where you are and where you’re going – March of the Writers Day 4

There’s a moment in every writer’s life where you stop asking, “Am I really doing this?” and start saying, “Yes. This is the phase.” I’m in my self-publishing era—and I genuinely love it. Not because it’s easy. Because it’s a forge.

Who Is This? – March of the Writers Day 1

Who Is This? My name is Richard White. I’m a novelist, an MFA candidate in Creative Writing, and the founder of Whispers in the Dark Press. I write stories that live in the quiet spaces after chaos—where grief lingers, where truth fractures, where the human …

From Autumn Warmth to Winter Reckoning

Written by @RWhiteAuthor There is a season when the world begins to let go gently. Leaves loosen their grip. Light softens. Even grief feels warmer in the amber hush of October. Whiskey and the Autumn Wind lives in that space—the place where loss has arrived …

When a Review Becomes a Fireside Conversation 🍂🥃

Some books ask to be finished. Others ask to be savored. Whiskey and the Autumn Wind belongs to the latter—a collection meant for slow evenings, low light, and a glass poured with intention. When a reader described the poems as something to be “sipped like a fine bourbon by a crackling fireplace,” they captured the spirit of the book perfectly. This is poetry that lingers, that speaks softly, and that stays with you long after the final page.

Coming Soon: Ghost Asset

Richard White’s Breakout Espionage Thriller Debut This is the story that steps out of the shadows. A black sedan disappears into a blizzard on a forgotten stretch of highway. Snow buries the wreckage. Wind scours the road clean. No skid marks. No witnesses. By morning, …

A Year in the Echo of Words — A 2025 Reflection

The wheel of the year turned like a slow tide, and here we stand at its close — rich with stories, hardened by truth, softened by grace. In the quiet places between sirens and silence, 2025 became one of reckoning and resolution. This year I …