ABOUT

As a reporter, R. H. Emmers covered natural disasters, organized crime, murders, plane crashes, politics, government corruption and all the other assorted crimes and deaths and trials and speeches that fill up a reporter’s notebook or recorder.

Later, needing a change of pace, he became an insurance fraud investigator, taking down scammers faking injuries or disabilities to collect as much as ten or fifteen thousand dollars a month… tax free.

And then, in search of one more challenge, he went to work for one of the country’s premier crisis communications firms where he represented clients, mostly rich and famous, mired in scandal of one sort or the other.

But what he was never able to shake was the ambition that had called to him when he was young: To write. Specifically, to write fiction, short stories, novels, all of it. In short: To tell stories.

Now, he has finally returned to that first love.

This website is a chronicle of that reconnection with a first love. Here you will find R. H. Emmers’ most recent published works of fiction, along with novel excerpts, works in progress and his thoughts on writing (and, occasionally, life itself.)