Douglas Rickard
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About me, Douglas Rickard

The moment it all began? A hotel room in Amsterdam.

On an art college trip, I turned on the hotel TV - and there it was. Amanda and Sam’s wedding on Another World. Larger-than-life characters, wanna-live settings, all playing out with the raw intimacy of a stage play. I was hooked. 


Maybe you raced home from school to catch Guiding Light - or stayed home when you definitely shouldn’t to watch Sunset Beach. 

Jackie Collins, Louise Bagshawe… but with the messiest tropes and the heart of soap operas that fans devoted decades to.

Romance, tangled family trees, mystery - daytime drama has always thrived on excess. But my novel? It plays with the boundaries, the tension, the desire that was always just out of reach. It’s not just a soap opera - it’s what happens when the heat rises between the lines. 

Before I was writing about beautiful disasters, I was drawing them.

 Explore my past work here. 


Posts focused on writing, storytelling, and this novel’s world - shared about twice a month

Why not subscribe for free to my blog. In my latest post on reading other similar novels as my own-in-progress, I review If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon, and how it reminded me why danger has to breathe all the way through a story. From 80s mini-series glamour to gritty prison scenes, it reshaped how I think about tension, payback, and emotional stakes in my own writing.

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Mon May 5th

POV Your Girlfriend's Mom is Still Hot Pt 1

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Mon May 5th

POV Your Girlfriend's Mom is Still Hot Pt 1

"Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that." 

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Thad Luckinbill as J.T. Hellstrom
Mitzi Kapture-Donahue as Anita Hodges
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Mon June 16th

Fiction Feedback Workshop

6:45 PM to 9:30 PM The Square Pig 30-32 Procter St, London WC1V 6NX

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Mon June 16th

Fiction Feedback Workshop

 I will be reading a portion of my work in progress at The London Writers' Café.

6:45 PM to 9:30 PM The Square Pig 30-32 Procter St, London WC1V 6NX

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