Richard French writes across genres the way he ran companies: by taking complex systems and making them understandable.
Richard’s biblical commentary Revelation Explained: Verse by Verse (Indie Pen Press, 2024) is a 540-page futurist walk through the full text, written for readers who want to understand the book rather than speculate about it. It reached number one on Amazon in three biblical studies categories.
His fiction, including the dystopian novel The Emotion Collector: Awakening and The Convergence series, which blends quantum theory with fantasy, pushes ordinary people into extraordinary pressure and asks what they will risk for the truth.
His non-fiction on ethics and reflective practice, including Daniel as a Blueprint for Navigating Ethical Dilemmas and the Journaling Mastery series, works from the same conviction: difficulty is rarely an excuse. Complex things can be made clear, and hard choices can be faced honestly.
Richard spent more than two decades in technology. He helped pioneer the open-source web as General Manager of OSDN, the Open Source Development Network, operating properties including Slashdot and SourceForge. His career also included executive leadership roles in technology: Chief Operating Officer of Automation Anywhere through its growth from $14 million to over $100 million, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at Oracle, and Chief Executive Officer of Syntonetic, an early pioneer in emotion-aware music AI. He led teams across five continents.
The skill that carried across every role is the one his books now rely on: translating complex ideas for any audience without trading accuracy for accessibility.
An amateur GT race car driver and former competitor in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Series West, Richard lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Barbara, and their two Boston Terriers. He publishes through Indie Pen Press, the independent press he founded.