Ronald D. Giles

When we last left this story, three of my close advisers--a Medium and a Minister, plus my closest adviser, Mrs. Giles--all were telling me ...

I interrupt my telling of the story behind the writing of Locusts and Wild Honey to present an excerpt from On Harrisonville Avenue  which ...

I have never met Shannon Hall Walker face-to-face but we have had an active phone relationship for fourteen years. (We also share the same b...

I began trying to organize what I thought would be the chapters for Locusts and Wild Honey .  Note that I had "The Prey" and ...

In February, 2011, I began sketching out what would become Locusts and Wild Honey , I started with the Hellhound, a legendary character that...

Despite the fact that readers thought  the newspaper article in my third book was genuine, rather than my concoction, once again I am using ...

Earlier this year, a friend at the Portsmouth Public Library in Ohio, alerted me to a call for submissions of short stories about southern O...

Below is the Ryan Budget Plan stated without any hyperbole, emotive adjectives or spin: The latest (March, 2012) full-scale version of th...

HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR NEW ASPHALT DRIVEWAY We ask that you keep car traffic off your driveway for at least 3 days. If temperatures are r...

Yesterday, I posted a portion of my short story, "Locusts and Wild Honey," in which two of the storylines were revealed.  ...

I have begun to write after a long interval of other activities. The current effort is a collection of short stories tentatively titled, ...

In a scene from my third book, “Great Heats,” the ancient Mound Builders of Ohio erect a tall pole, simulating a large sundial, to give them...

  This Sunday evening, Joan and I have the privilege of presenting a Hymns program at a church celebrating their 150th Anniversary. Trinit...

From 1974 - 1977, I was Executive Producer of the Scripps-Howard station in Cincinnati, Ohio, WCPO-TV.  Our anchorman, Al Schottlekotte was ...

 On October 2, a new book will be launched – an anthology of short stories by Chester County Authors, setting their stories in Chester Cou...

Listening to the minister Sunday morning, she read a passage from Romans: “ 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what...

The following is an excerpt from a new book I am writing tentatively titled "TV Stories," recalling many amusing, heartwarming a...

Some of you may know that Joan and I are involved in promoting the understanding of Hymns, the stories behind their writing, and encouraging...

I have enjoyed working with editors because in their picky, prickly way they make me a better writer. For example, I have almost stopped Em...

With the Industrial Revolution in progress, in order to find work, people moved from rural settings to close-by the factories in order to wa...