SWEET DREAMS - A MEMOIR
My life has been sweet. I’ve lived many of my dreams.
And a few nightmares.
I’ve been lucky to play in the arts for a living, winning awards as writer, director, composer, and artist.
Writing fiction the last 20 years, it was time to pause the deception. Here’s the real stuff. Stories of people, places, and events
from my fleeting trip through time.
I’m grateful to family and friends who taught me life lessons — mentors,
a quadriplegic pal, a homeless man, a foster child, a dying boy.
I started writing advertising. I had to entertain you fast. Make you laugh. Feel empathy. Buy burgers, cheese, or left-handed door knobs for clients like Kraft, McDonald’s, Campbell Soup, Coors, State Farm, General Mills, Honda, Kellogg’s, and a few hundred more.
This is an expression of gratitude. For luck, blessings, and gifts.
I’ve had more than most. I have family. Friends. Health. Love.
What more could a man ask? Sweet dreams.
ADULT
EXPLICIT
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“WARNING: Scenes of sex and violets.”
IN DEFIANCE OF GRAVITY - A NOVEL
An elderly man grieves the death of his invalid wife. He was her devoted caretaker. Now, he awaits his own end. His pushy daughter-in-law and only son plot to sell his home and move him into a senior community. Resigned
to their wishes, William enters Sunshine Village to live out his remaining days. Grief and guilt haunt him. But, among the ruins, he finds new life. A woman teaches him how to live and laugh again. And that it’s never too late for love.
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VEGAS WEEKEND - 2nd Volume of Short Stories
READER REVIEW
"This excellent book of short stories covers a wide range of people and experiences. Robert Richter has a wonderful ability to enter into the thoughts and actions of characters, widening our own capacity for understanding of their joys, miseries and conflicts.”
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OUT OF THE FOG - 4th Volume of Short Stories
READER REVIEW
“This guy knows how to write! Prepare yourself for some serious escapism as his finely crafted journeys, drama and humor blossom in your brain.
This is for everyone.”
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OLIVIA OCTOPUS
Written in rhyme, Olivia shows kids the amazing qualities of the octopus.
They think with nine brains, smell, taste, feel, and hold, with
their eight tentacles. They walk, jet, change color and shape.
They’re surprisingly intelligent. And sensitive to humans.
Olivia shows kids our link with all creatures.
And the importance of caring for our oceans.
Inspired by the Academy Award Winning Documentary by Craig Foster, “My Octopus Teacher.” My amusing muse for this little creature.
To Thodoris Tibilis, designer of Olivia,
and Shutterstock artists from here to Bolivia.
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THE LINE is on a mission of silliness. Flying through time and space, it draws itself. A silly dog. A hopping frog. Hats and cats. Kissing fish. A two, and a tu-tu too. It pauses in its persistence, to ponder its existence, realizing that life is what you make it, and meant to be filled with love.
“Seniors off their rockers.”
“Love, laugh, cry. Could you help someone die?”
"Silly isn't just for the immature."
“70 is the new 50.”
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LAST NIGHT IN PARIS - 3rd Volume of Short Stories
READER REVIEW
"A delightful short story collection from Robert Richter. Tremendously clever. The stories touched me, tickled me and even got me teary."
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STORIES FROM HIGH TIDE
125 surprising, funny, sweet, scary, shocking,, silly, sensual, twisting, stories.
20 years of delirious, tedious, ponderous, insidious, fastidious, delicious writing.
The Gold Collection — Outstanding Short Stories by Robert Richter.
A compilation of four volumes. “Stairway to Heaven,” “Vegas Weekend,”
“Last Night in Paris,” and “Out of the Fog.”
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BILL THE BIRD A story of physical diversity.
READER REVIEW
“This is such a sweet story, with very winsome illustrations. Good for a cuddle-in-your-lap read - while they still fit and will cuddle.”
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WINNER
THE GOLD AWARD
Children’s Picture Books
Mom’s Choice Awards
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NEW DAD HANDBOOK Tips, tools and tricks for new fathers. Explores the ten stages in kids' lives from newborn to 18+. It’s a quick How-To, about good humor, good habits, good talking and good listening. It’s a lot of work. And a lot of fun. Being a dad is the most awesome responsibility a man will face in his life. It is also his greatest joy.
TYPICAL TIP - Pacifier reliant? Tie it to a doorknob.
READER REVIEW
“This author sounds like the best advisor ever for dads! Such thoughtful practical advice. I gave this too my son-in-law, about to become first time dad to my first time grand child.”
WEEKEND AWAY - A NOVEL
Ana is the perfect woman, wife and mother, feeling less than perfect. Married, four kids, goals achieved, she has it all.
But lately, she is questioning everything.
She celebrates a birthday weekend away, with lifelong friends at a cabin
in the winter woods. Libby is newly divorced, still angry and looking.
Sara is single and head of her own successful design firm.
Fun, food and memories rock the party. A knock at the door.
It's a man, stranded in a blizzard. Snowed in, frozen together in time,
their lives accelerate to change.
READER REVIEW "Weekend Away has it all: humor, suspense, sex and poignancy. The chapters dealing with Bill, the father of four, had me laughing out loud. The narrative switches between characters,
creating a need to know what happens next. We seamlessly
move from Bill left alone to deal with his children for the first time
in his life, to Ana experiencing non-motherhood for the first time
on her weekend away with her friends."
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - 1st Volume of Short Stories
READER REVIEW
“Wonderful collection of short stories by Robert Richter. My only complaint is,
I had a hard time putting it down. :)”
