Author: richardlevesqueauthor

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

It’s Launch Day for The Double-Time Slide!

I’m very pleased to announce that Book 2 in The Crossover Case Files is now live on Amazon. A chance encounter with a burlesque dancer drags Jed Strait into the sleazy alleys of Los Angeles, where he finds the police following a string of murders along a path that will lead them straight back to…
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March 4, 2021 0

A Blacktop Blues Playlist

When I write, I usually picture my books unfolding like films, and a good movie needs a good soundtrack. Since music figures pretty heavily into Jed Strait’s character and his adventures in The Blacktop Blues, I thought it would be great to offer you a soundtrack to go along with the book. If you want…
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February 3, 2021 0

The Blacktop Blues Is Now Live…And Book 2 Is Coming Up!!

My new Dieselpunk series, The Crossover Case Files, is finally here with Book 1: The Blacktop Blues now available in e-book and paperback formats. In The Blacktop Blues, you’ll follow Jed Strait as he navigates a version of 1948 Los Angeles that’s familiar to us in some ways and very different in others. If you’ve…
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February 2, 2021 0

New Book! New Series!

Welcome to The Crossover Case Files, a new dieselpunk series featuring Jed Strait, a fish-out-of-water private eye who’s trying to make his way in a version of 1948 that includes renegade Nazis, femmes fatale, and an old inventor with a lot of tricks up his sleeve. The first book in the series is The Blacktop…
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January 12, 2021 0

Free Short Story!!

I’ve been hard at work getting ready to launch a new dieselpunk series, The Crossover Case Files. To help introduce you to that world, I’m releasing a FREE stand-alone short story set in the Crossover Case Files universe. Jed Strait doesn’t normally babysit, but when the Private Investigator is offered the job of making sure…
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December 28, 2020 0

Time Travel Sale–Just 99¢

Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats. For a limited time, you can read about Eddie’s adventures in 1940 Los Angeles as he discovers the secret to time travel and then has to struggle to find a way to use it to his advantage…before it’s used against him.…
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June 14, 2020 0

Get Your Copy of The Unhuman Condition for Just 99¢

Trapped on an Alien World. The Natives Call it “Earth.” The Unhuman Condition is just 99¢ for a limited time! After her research mission goes awry, Lespeth is desperate to go home and put the nightmare behind her. Unfortunately for her, home is light years away. Trapped in 1921 Hollywood, all she can do is…
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April 2, 2019 0

Don’t Panic!! E-Books Make Great Last-Minute Gifts

You know the feeling. It’s almost Christmas and there are people you haven’t been able to buy anything for yet. Maybe they’re hard to shop for. Maybe you just haven’t had time. Maybe you accidentally left that person off your list. Well, the good news is that you can give e-books as gifts. If you’re…
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December 23, 2018 0

New Release–Foundlings Now Available as Audio Book

  Sooner or later, Everyone needs to be found Foundlings is now available in audio book format, narrated by Steven Jay Cohen. Derek Chandler had it all – the education, the promising future, the beautiful wife – but a tragic accident changed everything, and his life now stands in ruins. Haunted by the ghosts of…
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September 27, 2018 0

Tough Guys, Cool Dames…And Time Travel–All for Just 99¢!!

Take back tomorrow is on sale for just 99¢ for a limited time! Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats. He knew he’d get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable:…
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September 27, 2018 0