R.R. Virdi is an American urban fantasy author. Two of his novels have been nominated for a Dragon Award: Grave Measures in 2016 and Dangerous Ways in 2017. His novelette, "Messenger" (co-authored with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne), was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2019.
Career
R.R.[1] Virdi's first novel, Grave Beginnings, was published as an ebook in December 2013.[2] It was edited and rereleased in November 2015 in trade paperback format, after which it was named the "book of the year" by Drop of Ink Review that year.[3] The short work "Chance Fortunes" was published in September 2015 in The Longest Night Watch charity anthology edited by Lacey Sutton. "A Bag Full of Stars" was published in Stardust, Always from Writers Colony Press in June 2016.
In 2016, Grave Measures was nominated for a Dragon Award in the Best Fantasy Novel category.[4][5] Virdi's short, "Chance Dealings", was released in The Longest Night Watch, Volume 2 in October 2016. Dangerous Ways was released in December, and was nominated for a 2017 Dragon Award in the Best Fantasy Novel category.[6][7] The third book in The Grave Report series, Grave Dealings, was released in October 2017.
The first novel in his Monster Slayer OnlineLitRPG fantasy series, Goblin King, was published in May 2018 as an ebook. "Messenger", a short work co-authored with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and published October 2018 in The Expanding Universe Volume 4military science fiction anthology, was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2019.[8] In March 2019, Virdi published his space opera novel, Star Shepherd, followed in July by Beast Queen, the sequel to Goblin King.
Virdi published a second story with Wijeratne, "A Little Bit of Kali", in The Expanding Universe Volume 5 in September that year, then co-edited the Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within anthology with L. J. Hachmeister in October. His story, "The Shadow of Markham", was included in that anthology. Kate Pickford included his story "The Path to Kahinae" in the Hellcats anthology in September 2020.
Works
Unless otherwise noted, works are published independently by the author.
Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within with L. J. Hachmeister (October 2019, Source 7, ISBN978-1-69839-186-1)
Short works
"Chance Fortunes" in The Longest Night Watch edited by Lacey Sutton (September 2015, Writers Colony Press, ISBN978-0-692-53946-0)
"A Bag Full of Stars" in Stardust, Always edited by Lacey Sutton, Andrew Barber, and Ashlee Hetherington (June 2016, Writers Colony Press, ISBN978-1-5335-5974-6)
"Chance Dealings" in The Longest Night Watch, Volume 2 (October 2016, Writers Colony Press, ISBN978-1-5377-7375-9)
"Cheaters and Fortunes" in The Longest Night Watch, Volume 2
"A Little Bit of Kali" with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne in The Expanding Universe Volume 5 edited by (September 2019, LMBPN Publishing, ISBN978-1-69185-181-2)
"The Shadow of Markham" in Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within edited by R. R. Virdi and L. J. Hachmeister
"The Path to Kahinae" in Hellcats edited by Kate Pickford (September 2020, ebook only)
^"About". R.R. Virdi. Archived from the original on May 17, 2021. Retrieved May 17, 2021. His name is stylized and written specifically as R.R. Virdi (without spaces between the two R's for extremely personal and private reasons).