Novelist, screenwriter, essayist and true-crime writer, J. Richard Singleton has been crafting stories since high school, with an original screenplay that he wrote, "Thugs," becoming a semi-finalist in the American Accolades Screenplay Contest. At CSULA, he double-majored in political science and English, writing for both his university's newspaper and literary journal. He completed "Glyphics" right before he turned 21, then he finished it again in 2011. His literary influences include Kafka, Twain, Poe and Stephen King. 

You can also find his blog at jrichardsingleton.blogspot.com. Feel free to read and talk back.