The Creative Bio

Photo Courtesy of Richard's Selfie (2015)

Richard Tattoni was born in 1876 on the east side of Little Italy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At a young age, his parents moved to the Golden Horseshoe, rearing the boy as real as Hamilton steel. His parents eventually moved to Burlington, Ontario. There were years of living in the projects. He almost didn't go to Mohawk College, and nearly took a course in urban planning in university. The intent was to study the street layout of Burlington. When Richard returned to Hamilton, he served a stint as Hess Village's mayor, then quit politics. He moved to Brewington. However, don't think that this seemingly drunk frozen location affects all of his fiction or where his fiction takes us. His parents were hard-working, good people with Italian roots that reveal many of the strengths of his character. From a young age, he was drawn to creative endeavours and believed Alan Dershowitz was the world's best lawyer, but the writing seized him once again later in life, and noted life after death and the great beyond.

The writing started in high school with friends forming Igloo of the Polar Bear, a small poetry press. After high school sports, a college program and internship in media, and the start of a career that tested only a fraction of his editing and creative abilities, Richard continued putting words on paper. The writer felt more confident, increasing knowledge and more skills.

Even as he got much older, Richard could be described as having a 'wild imagination', which actually means that he has a tendency to embellish and doesn't always follow the rules of small talk in a conversation or answer questions. It turns out that this is just the formidable strength of some fiction writers. Further university training to polish his works in progress provided him with the skills to make better, more straightforward stories. The poetry you come across is almost entirely raw, experimental, fun, and reflective. He's read classic poetry, Mexico City Blues and computer books.

After years of working the seven-to-eleven grind at Pelmorex and Lionheart businesses, he made more time for writing offline. Gaining a certificate in creative writing from Humber College in 2019 and remaining active in the writing community, he refused to give up. He poured his heart and soul into writing fantasy in a way that was difficult to imagine, with a dedication that was inspiring, pushing boundaries and writing with a razor's edge. Richard made it in Rob McLennan's Guest Blog, talking about his writing day, and through it all, his dark dreams, once described as a pipe dream with no foundation, morphed into a goal: a real and achievable goal in the heart of Brewington.

Richard has come to the end of the line with storytelling, everything from picaresque, gonzo journalism, drug art, adventure, dark fantasy, literary fiction, creative non-fiction, comic thriller, ape, mystery, pop-punk, new adult, crime, contemporary and bizarro fiction. The author hopes the dark work resonates with those who read his stories. French Press Bookworks Author Roundtable featured a discussion about writing dialogue in his first video appearance. He doesn't serve the moral of the story on a platter, but requires the reader to dig in, get their hands dirty, and feel like they've achieved something real. Richard found the Canadian Dream from a dream about Brewington.

As for Richard's busy life before retirement, his writing life, he was a writer-in-residence at a local library in Brewington and was the head coach of the Brewington Buckaroos hockey team. His house on 77 Bad Boy Drive in Brewington, where he lived with his beautiful wife and kids. Grateful and jubilant every day when reminded that he found his own community. Richard still loves good beer, good times, and executively rocks out.

The author's development of the word Technossance describes the birth of technological arts; Richard's fight through the grips of the industrial revolution as a writer and internet poet. The old writer, the "Tattoni-ceratops", invites you to follow his carbon footprint. But his writing is much more exciting than he is, so go on and go order your own copy of his novel.

The Great Book is complete.

It's dedicated to Judy Lochness. 

'Turn right on Turning Point Road.'

A special thanks to weight-loss drugs.

But Gabapentin has soared in popularity? 

Richard's writing is different. Very different. Embrace confusion and complicated chaos. That's where the good stuff is. In the end, hidden in his long fringes were black eyes as big as pitted prunes. Richard was a dry-eyed alien with beer breath, wearing Kansas City Chiefs slippers. 

It may have been shock or loss, or disruption of spacetime.