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.