Picket Fire News: 9/25

We are now taking pre-orders for Richard Leise’s Dry The Rain, both in paperback and limited edition hardcover. All preordered books will be shipped with a targeted arrival date of 10/14/2025.

(NOTE: Limited Edition First Print Run Hardcovers are sold out! Second print run hardcovers will be in stock shortly.)

“Dry the Rain is a sharp rebuke to the way we treat survivors of sensational crimes like media property. It exposes the circus, the voyeurism, the myth-making. It reminds us that surviving doesn’t end when the cameras stop rolling. And in a literary landscape that often seeks resolution, it dares to say: some stories don’t end. They echo.

This one echoed in me. And I think it will for a long time.”

• Independent Book Review

Read the full Independent Book Review for “Dry The Rain.”

Read the full Literary Titan review of Richard Leise’s upcoming novel, “Dry The Rain.”

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Episode 42 of The Dad Lit Podcast features a discussion with Richard Leise who discusses his novel, “Dry The Rain.”

Episode 29 of The Dad Lit Podcast features a discussion of John F Duffy’s “Where When It Rains” and can be listened to here.