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About Me

I grew up just outside of Washington, DC, then I lived in central Florida for a couple years. I've been in Greenville for the past twelve years or so. I went to Winthrop for a year and studied photography. After my Freshman year, I transferred to Clemson and graduated with a degree in English and double minors in Journalism and Screenwriting. For my last two years at Clemson and for four years after I graduated, I ran an independent film production company, Dark Horizon Productions. The past couple of years I have been writing novels. My first book, The Painter, was released Thanksgiving '06. My second book should be finished sometime in Spring '07. I also have a couple other novels and a children's book in the works. If there's anything else you want to know, just ask me.

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Yahoo - rick_loveday

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My Interests

Cuong Nhu, mmartial arts, basketball, football, hockey, Washington Redskins, Clemson Tiger football, movies, writing, photography, singing, video games, spending time with my three nieces

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. I'm always up for talking to new people. And any other writers or artists.

Music:

Art Tatum, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Casting Crowns, Civil Twilight, Coldplay, Daughtry, Dishwalla, Faultline, Fergie, Five for Fighting, Guster, Hinder, James Blunt, John Legend, Kansas, Kutless, Lifehouse, Live, Mat Kearney, Nelly Furtado, Nickleback, Norah Jones, Our Lady Peace, Remy Zero, Switchfoot, The Calling, The Fray, Third Day

Movies:

Contact, Equilibrium, Finding Forrester, Frequency, Hitch, If Only, Life As A House, Shadows In the Sun, Shattered Glass, Stargate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prestige, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Red Violin, Reign Over Me, The Thirteenth Floor, What Dreams May Come

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Everwood, Family Guy, Futurama, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, JAG, Journeyman, Mind of Mencia, Lost, October Road, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG1, The Pretender, Tripping the Rift

Books:

BOOKS: A Perfect Day, Angels & Demons, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Ender's Game, Neverwhere, Oceans Apart, One Tuesday Morning, Speaker for the Dead, Stardust, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, The DaVinci Code, The Earthsea Series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, The Last Promise, The Notebook, The Remains of the Day, The Riverworld Series, The Wedding, Timeline

AUTHORS: Orson Scott Card, Clive Cussler, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michio Kaku, Karen Kingsbury, James Patterson, Frank Peretti, Nicholas Sparks

My Blog

The Last Breath - Two Chapter Preview

CHAPTER ONE The wail of the siren pierced the late morning air. The ambulance screamed around a curve, just narrowly missing a compact car that was late in switching lanes. Traffic began pi...
Posted by Rick on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:18:00 PST

The Painter

After almost two years of work, my first novel, 'The Painter,' is finally available in both hardback and paperback versions.The following is a short description of the book:"Martin and Rebecca Banks l...
Posted by Rick on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:50:00 PST

Prologue for my next book

September 24, 1980 The rain fell in waves, pouring over the downtown skyline with an unrelenting fury. The clouds formed an impenetrable ceiling that left the city under a cover of darkness. A multit...
Posted by Rick on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST

First chapter of The Phoenix Trilogy that I worked on a little last year

The shatterproof glass holding area sat in the middle of a large, windowless room. An armed guard stood at each corner of the clear structure, packed with prisoners. Far too many people were crammed i...
Posted by Rick on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:59:00 PST

Choices, Part 3

~~~~~ Where are they? I know I left them here. Shirts, pants, and other items of clothing fly around the room. They have to be here. The room becomes a cyclone of airborne clothing. After searching t...
Posted by Rick on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:43:00 PST

Choices, Part 2

The cool night air wrapped its arms around the girl's tiny frame as she stepped out of the hotel. Her coat was clutched tightly around her as she settled in for the long walk home. A few blocks into t...
Posted by Rick on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:30:00 PST

Choices, Part 1

I reach out through the darkness for the light switch. With a quick flip, the room fills with a dimly-lit brightness from the two bulbs above the mirror. I pause in front of the mirror, staring back a...
Posted by Rick on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:28:00 PST

Prologue for a potential new book first draft

Prologue The city of Paris, France was nothing short of spectacular. Breathtaking. The thousands of pictures that Angela Moran has seen in her life truly did no justice at all. She looked down at...
Posted by Rick on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:10:00 PST

A Short Story

The Point Dust swirls around the vacuum that encapsulates me. A miniature cyclone passes through the tattered remains, right past me, as if I werent even there. A persistent ringing terrorizes ...
Posted by Rick on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:39:00 PST