Richard Roach

Richard Roach is an American writer best known for co-authoring Forward the Mage (2002) with science fiction author Eric Flint, published by Baen Books as the sole entry to date in Flint's Joe's World series, a comic secondary-world fantasy about an ordinary young man swept into a farcical, escalating war between rival magical kingdoms. The collaboration reflects Flint's broader career-long pattern of co-writing with a range of collaborators from varied backgrounds. Beyond this credited co-authorship, detailed public information about Roach's individual writing career, background, and other work remains sparse in available sources.