Authored Books

Free-spirited Poems

Color! Colorful poems, pics, icons, and graphics meshed into the total reading experience. They integrate with the surprises, shocks, laughs, meditations, stories and more, over 140, to get and hold your interest every time. These poems are not the usual kind nor on only one theme or made from only one style or page length. Some pages have three or four short gotchas. Also unique, although not an anthology, 14 poet friends of the author and his granddaughter share a poem of theirs, so divergent voices and sounds are guaranteed.

Free-spirited Poems:
Bodies & Souls Speak a Volume,
2024, 154 pp,
available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 
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IS THERE HOPE FOR THE MENTALLY UNSTABLE?

What’s normal? What’s not? Can you tell?

Sit next to Rodney, ride the rollercoaster, and experience dreams, delusions, hallucinations, visions, sights, and sounds with all the emotions of a manic brain overtaken by the enormity of the universe.

Who can tell a psychotic break? Can month-long clinics be lifesavers, not prisons? Is it possible to be both Messiah and King of the World? Despite mental illness, can a person achieve an outstanding career? Can one raise wholesome children and maintain a healthy marriage or … will it end in divorce?

Anyone experiencing bipolar or caregivers will appreciate and learn from the insights and resources herein.

Rollercoaster memoir Coffee, Cigarettes, Death & Mania, 2021, 290 pp, available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 
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PROBLEMS WITH NO SOLUTIONS? OR …

There are problems everywhere. That’s all we see, feel, and know. But what if there were practical solutions? Not pie-in-the-sky or dictatorial, but down-to-earth, doable changes that will bring us closer to security and paradise?

Listen to Descartes, “I think, therefore I am,” or meet the angels all around you. Learn why President Woodrow Wilson’s crown was the unity of nations and not the thorns of prejudice. Discover how to maintain a “bright and friendly face,” dispel doubt and fear, and develop a trustworthy, likeable, and honorable character.

Solving the World’s Titanic Struggles, Vol 1, 100 essays, 2018, 364 pp, available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 

Why is the world tearing itself apart?

It is because we are in the Age of Frustration, where problems seem insurmountable and we have no universal solutions.
What hope do we have for solving them? What can we do to save ourselves, our societies, our nation?
These 100 short essays by Rodney Richards provide realistic solutions based on the nobility of the human spirit and good people everywhere to change satanic strength into heavenly virtues. From Thoreau's independence, to the raising of the first Peace flag; from Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, to Einstein's reliance on intuition; and from Gandhi's divine mystery to JFK's "Ask not...," humanity has received a divine Guide Map to peace and prosperity.

Solving the World’s Titanic Struggles, Vol 2, 100 essays, 2022, 431 pp, available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 

Be Your Own Boss Vol 1

This book is a valuable resource for anyone thinking of starting a new service business. The authors share their experience and wisdom from managing their own businesses. Chester, a synthetic sheepdog, became a symbol and guiding force for George and his wife Ilene's tutoring business. Rodney’s passion was writing and learning, and he tried an energy consulting business before switching to helping writers edit and publish their work. Both entrepreneurs share must-have knowledge to be successful.

2023, 206 pp, available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 

Be Your Own Boss Vol 2

Wow! This second volume is jam-packed with incredibly useful insights, tips, and How to's to run and grow any type of small services business, whether box store or online, and jump to the top of the top seller's heap. Put together by two self-made entrepreneurs with their own multiple service businesses, even failures pivoted successfully with their determination, passion, and smarts. This volume shows how to use dozens of physical and online tools available and necessary to win at your business. This inside information will help any small services business operate well and grow.

2023, 277 pp, available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 

The Thursday Poets’ Anthology

Enjoy or muse on 91 collected poems from nine veteran poets who share magical forms of words and meanings that transport you into unique observations and emotions. Earth, a tiny speck in a vast universe of planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and ether, holds us in its palm from birth to death. We spin with it, alive for a time, caught in the dreams and realities of our own or others' making. We long for better, for ourselves, for others, for things in this world and in worlds of imagination. Experience in these poems by survivors and dreamers, the intricacies and truths of life, mortality, and what lies between. All using their voice to express their passion for life.

The Thursday Poets’ Anthology: Dreams & Realities,
91 poems, 2022, 98 pp,
available on Amazon as trade or ebook

 

Poems from the Circle of Seven

Sixty-eight brand new workshopped poems from a diverse and geographically dispersed and close-knit group of poets.
Images, scenes, and scenarios woven by these thoughts, words, and included emotions arise from personal experiences and observations, whims, and wishes universally shared by thousands of millions of world citizens of all ethnic backgrounds and multi-cultural societies. These poetic voices from the Circle of Seven make for incredible reading, listening to, and feeling.

Poems from the Circle of Seven:
A Sampler to Savor,
68 poems, 2023, 90 pp,
available on Amazon as trade or ebook