Ronald D. Giles

On the Friday after Thanksgiving each year, we have a Wine tasting. We also invite to the table the Grand Children and non-wine drinking adu...

Dear Readers: Thank you for your many and varied responses. Yesterday my mailbox was replete with emails, Facebook notes and comments rangi...

Despite my best efforts to avoid doing so, I have decided to write my own back cover copy. I know what you must be thinking -- Ron, you are ...

I began writing this novel of historic fiction in September of 2009. Writing mostly every day, the writing was finished in April. Then I beg...

I took my four year old grand daughter to her soccer game this weekend. She lives in an affluent area where the parking lot was crammed ful...

Yes, birthdays -- mine. My father-in-law used to say that if he knew he would live this long, he would have taken better care of himself. ...

I leave this to the Dear Reader to decide for themseves if they agree or not. From www.phyliss-chesler.com . The writer is a retired profes...

This is from Michelle Malkin's Blog. It is her writing in her voice. In a different day and age, Jeff Hart would be the most famous Amer...

Yesterday for breakfast, I had a red rome apple on my way quickly out the door to get to church in time for choir rehearsal. While the apple...

The third book is almost finished with the re-edit and the publisher is waiting to begin the process. It will take three to six months to co...

In the past two years, wild turkeys have appeared in our back yard. The largest clutch was a tom with four hens. Wild Turkeys are large bird...

The editor has finished her review of my book, "Great Heats" and not only did she cast her Chicago Style Manual at my effort, but ...

Postcard Sun, glasses, sand, shells, crabs, kids, coconut, breeze, umbrellas, surf, dolphins, tan, sunburn, ball, hard, soft, bounce, bikini...

The manuscript for "Great Heats" is with the editor. Although I am confident that this is a good story, sending it to her causes s...

"On Harrisonville Avenue" continues to sell in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky, so while I am in Portsmouth over the 4th of Ju...

Rewriting the Epilogue took longer than I thought, and I still may revise it as there are some details that I should revisit, but I say -- o...

Chapter Four is now "in the can," a television expression actually derived from the film industry, meaning it is finished -- the r...

I now have finished rewriting Chapter Three. The usual grammatical and spelling errors have been found, but the number of content errors ha...

This was in my mailbox this morning: A College Class was given the assignment to write a short story using the fewest words possible, but th...

My herb garden has been neglected. Although I have just potted new Basil and Rosemary plants, last year's Oregano and Chives once again ...