Richard Paolinelli

Award-winning, best-selling author & publisher

Richard began his writing journey as a freelance writer in 1983 and gained his first fiction credit serving as the lead writer for the first two issues of the Elite Comics sci-fi/fantasy series, Seadragon.

After nearly a quarter of a century in the newspaper field, in 2010, Richard retired as an award-winning sportswriter and returned to his fiction writing roots. Since then he has written several award-winning novels, two non-fiction sports books, and has appeared in dozens of anthologies.

He served as a co-host on LA Talk Radio’s, The Writer’s Block, from 2016 thru 2022 and is the co-founding Publisher of Tuscany Bay Books. He currently resides in frozen tundra of North Dakota.

And yes, the picture over to the side is him at the age of four, already crafting his first masterpiece.

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