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Richard Roberts

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://frankensteinbeck.blogspot.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories

Influences

Margery Sharp, Peter S. Beagle, Lewis Carroll ...more

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July 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/frankensteinbeck

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I've been writing for a long, long time. A long, long, long time. Do you remember when dirt was invented? I was using it to scratch out stories. Getting published was harder, but now I'm hooked up with Curiosity Quills and I have real books in paper, and you should buy some!

As a writer my fascination has always been children's literature, especially children's lit that is also adult lit. For some reason, this means that instead I write gothic light romance for fun, and very dark and tragic young adult books for passion. I love seeing the world through the eyes of strange people, and I believe that happy endings must be earned the hard way. There's a reason my friends started calling me Frankensteinbeck.

I could talk about how great my writin ...more

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Richard Roberts's Blog

After Much Footling, I'll Go With Avery

It took a lot of thought and experimenting, but I think I've found what I'll write next. To my surprise, the story of Avery Special, teenage necromancer, is in Penny's world, although I doubt she herself will appear at all. I've run it through my alpha readers, and I'm pretty sure this is viable. As usual, here is the sample first chapter if anyone wants to read and comment!

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Richard Roberts’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 11,786 ratings · 1,110 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,780 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have A Nemesis (Please Don't Tell My Parents #4) 4.11 avg rating — 928 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quite Contrary 3.50 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 635 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #0.5) 4.09 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #6) 4.31 avg rating — 249 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Children 3.97 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead 4.14 avg rating — 183 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Please Don't Tell My Parents (10 books)
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The Doll House (3 books)
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“And boy, the transformation. I had to feel bad for him, inheriting a power like this. He had all of the ugly. All of it. He hadn't left any ugly for anybody else.”
― Richard Roberts, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

tags: supervillains

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“HA! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!”
― Richard Roberts, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

tags: mad-science, mad-scientist, maniacal-laughter

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“Sure, we had no audience but each other, but what kind of supervillains would we be if we didn't keep up the drama?”
― Richard Roberts, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

tags: supervillain, supervillains, supervillainy

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