Ask the Author: Ron Fritsch
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Ron Fritsch
I'd go to the world of the Iliad and put into words what I heard and saw Achilles and the others say and do there. I'd be known as Homer.
Ron Fritsch
I've never had a reading list. When I happen upon a book that interests me, I'll begin reading it, although I might not finish it. I'm always reading something. This summer will be no different.
Ron Fritsch
Did my first boyfriend die accidentally (the official report), did he commit suicide, or was he murdered because he was gay?
Ron Fritsch
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist in "Brokeback Mountain," the short story by Annie Proulx, and, of course, the 2005 film adaptation. I grew up on a farm and see my younger self in them and their story as if I'm looking in a mirror.
Ron Fritsch
My most recent book, Promised Valley Peace, is the last of a four-novel series. The first three are Promised Valley Rebellion, Promised Valley War and Promised Valley Conspiracy. They’re set in a sometimes Edenic and other times violent prehistoric era. Hunters and farmers fight wars over a river valley their gods promised both of them.
I don’t know where I got the idea for the series. I’ve always wanted to write a story about people peacefully occupying an exceptionally fertile river valley surrounded by mountains keeping out their enemies. Sort of like America surrounded by oceans. Then I realized the outsider people might have good cause to resent being excluded from Eden.
I don’t know where I got the idea for the series. I’ve always wanted to write a story about people peacefully occupying an exceptionally fertile river valley surrounded by mountains keeping out their enemies. Sort of like America surrounded by oceans. Then I realized the outsider people might have good cause to resent being excluded from Eden.
Ron Fritsch
I wouldn’t call it “inspiration.” It’s more like a need—a strangely powerful need—to write. I can’t escape it. I’ve given up to it.
Ron Fritsch
This is what I currently imagine for the back cover and wherever else a brief description of the book will appear:
“His Grandfather’s House is a story of obsession in mid-twentieth-century America. Kurt Krueger’s grandfather is willing to dispossess his neighbors and enrage his community to get what he wants: a one-square-mile section of Illinois farmland. Kurt is equally willing to flout the law and commit the “infamous crime against nature” to get what he wants: the man he loves.
“Family saga, historical fiction, mystery, thriller, horror, Midwestern Gothic, young adult, gay-and-lesbian fiction, male-male romance, humor, tragedy, literary fiction. No paranormality, dystopia, science fiction or erotica.”
“His Grandfather’s House is a story of obsession in mid-twentieth-century America. Kurt Krueger’s grandfather is willing to dispossess his neighbors and enrage his community to get what he wants: a one-square-mile section of Illinois farmland. Kurt is equally willing to flout the law and commit the “infamous crime against nature” to get what he wants: the man he loves.
“Family saga, historical fiction, mystery, thriller, horror, Midwestern Gothic, young adult, gay-and-lesbian fiction, male-male romance, humor, tragedy, literary fiction. No paranormality, dystopia, science fiction or erotica.”
Ron Fritsch
This question is too easy: Never give up.
Ron Fritsch
Creating characters and their stories. Putting them into words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books.
Ron Fritsch
I’ve never had to deal with writer’s block. I have many more stories in my head than those I’ve already put into words on paper or a screen. I’ll never have time enough to write them all.
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