Visit ronfranscell.com for the latest from the author including a download of this guide for book clubbers! … [Read more...]
NYT Bestselling Author Ron Franscell Delivers A Crime Mystery With Shocking Twist: DEAF ROW
About The Book As you read along, be sure to dog-ear the pages bursting with Franscell's gritty descriptions - a sentence, a paragraph or a page - of the silver-haired people and the gray places of rural Colorado in this raw, wintry crime novel." -DAVID STEINBERG, Albuquerque Journal Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow "Mountain" Bell yearns only to fade away. He's failed in so many ways … [Read more...]
Ron Franscell Answers “Which is harder to write: true crime or crime fiction?’
DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023! … [Read more...]
Superstar Narrator, Jim Meskimen, Voices DEAF ROW Audiobook
Read the author's blog post profiling Jim Meskimen and get the audiobook now! On the author's blog at ronfranscell.com, narrator Jim Meskimen discusses the challenges of bringing the characters in the upcoming audiobook DEAF ROW to life with unique and identifiable voices. Meskimen, a veteran narrator with over 300 audiobooks under his belt, explains how he approaches narrating and how he works to add to the author's storytelling. DEAF ROW is a … [Read more...]
Book Trailer For DEAF ROW by Ron Franscell
Read the author's blog and watch the book trailer for an eerie sense of the upcoming Ron Franscell mystery thriller. DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023! … [Read more...]
Tatiana Vila Designs “Chilling” Cover For DEAF ROW
Best-selling author Ron Franscell asked the talented book cover artist Tatiana Vila a few questions back in October. Vila has designed numerous covers for WildBlue Press over the years including DEAF ROW. Read the author's blog post below and at ronfranscell.com! DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023! … [Read more...]
The Infamous Charles Manson is Featured In OUTLAW LOS ANGELES
Every generation has its bogeyman. Before 1969, maybe it was Adolf Hitler. After 2001, Osama bin Laden. But for those 30 or so years in between it was unquestionably an aspiring musician, deeply damaged outlaw, and hippie Svengali named Charles Manson. On two nights in the summer of 1969—the same summer as Woodstock—Manson rose from nobody to America’s most fearsome monster. Born in Ohio to an unwed, 15-year- old girl, Manson’s childhood … [Read more...]
OUTLAW LOS ANGELES Takes Readers To The City Where Anything Is Possible, Even The Ghastly
A sunset cruise through a place where ordinary inhumanities are entertainment... Los Angeles is where America’s dreams and nightmares got all tangled up. In this otherworldly place of seemingly everlasting life, death could have an otherworldly quality, too. In a city where anything was possible, even the ghastly could happen. Where else does a list of a city’s top five most recognized citizens include a mass murderer? Stand in the footsteps of … [Read more...]
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OUTLAW SOUTHWEST’s Ron Franscell On The Story Behind The Famous Photo Of Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid: Ten perfectly still seconds in eternity We know almost nothing of him, except her was a gypsy photographer, drifting the dusty roads of the territories. Trooping wearily from one far-flung town to another, he’d likely stop his dark-room wagon outside of busy saloons, brothels, maybe even a hanging. He’d mount his big camera, unfurl his backdrops, and hope word spread before dark there was a man taking pictures in town. But … [Read more...]