Books by Richard Willett

A Friend of Dorothy’s, a coming of age novel set at the start of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York City, will be available in local bookstores and online booksellers on June 15th, 2025.

Richard Willett wrote A Friend of Dorothy’s when he was in his twenties. Excerpts appeared in the legendary gay literary magazine Christopher Street and in Permafrost at the University of Alaska, as well as being short-listed for New American Library’s Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction. But the novel dismayed just as many editors, who especially clutched their pearls over its overtly sexual final chapter, and the book itself never found a home. Until now.

ISBN: 979-8-9923398-0-2 (hardcover)
$27.99 (usa) $39.99 (can) £21.99 (uk) $43.99 (aus)
ISBN: 979-8-9923398-1-9 (paperback)
$17.99 (usa) $25.99 (can) £16.99 (uk) $27.99 (aus)
ISBN:  979-8-9923398-2-6 (e-book)
$ 6.99 (usa) $11.99 (can) $12.99 (aus)

CLICK HERE to find a local bookstore where you can pre-order A Friend of Dorothy’s. 

CLICK HERE to pre-order paperback, hardcover, or ebook editions of A Friend of Dorothy’s from an online bookstore.

In addition to Richard’s forthcoming novel A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S, The Magic Show Press plans to publish a collection of his short stories, a book of his popular Facebook film reviews (titled, appropriately enough, BUT THEN AGAIN, WHAT THE HELL DO I KNOW?), and a collection of Richard’s picks for who should have won the Oscar in every category for almost 100 years of the Academy Awards.