When Ice Ran Red

by Roger Thomas Pepper

ISBN 9780986077623 alternate cover edition

Unknown Binding

First published August 1, 2014

About the author

Mainstream author Roger Pepper left a successful career in science to pursue his lifelong ambition to become a novelist. An Associate of the British Institution of Metallurgists, Roger attended postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, where he earned a Ph.D.
Roger is the coauthor of a patent on the development of the metal composite material used for the antenna of the Hubble Space Telescope. He began writing in his spare time while serving as the Director of Research of an Aerospace Materials Company in the United States.
His memoir, My Father the Viking, won 3rd Prize in the 2006 Linda Joy Myers Memoir Competition of the National League of American Pen Women, an open competition for published and unpublished works. He received an Honorable Mention for an earlier version of the first 50 pages of The Brothers Cro-Magnon from a contest run by the Speculative Literature Foundation.
He is the author of four novels: No Man’s Sons, Tommy’s War, Ice, and Davide.
Roger is a member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a co-organizer of the Portland Writers Group (480 members) and spent several years as the host of some of their monthly writing workshops. Tess Gerritsen acknowledged him in her bestselling medical thriller, Harvest, for providing research materials.
With friends from the Appalachian Mountain Club, Roger hiked in the Austrian and Italian Alps, traveled in France and Israel, and trekked in the Kangchenjunga and Annapurna Himalayan regions of Nepal, the Tien Shan [mountains/Mountains] of the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. He writes full-time and lives in Maine.

Reviews

[Roger Pepper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Where do my book ideas come from? Sitting high up in Italy’s World War One trenches, while backpacking in the Alps, I tried to wrap my mind around living in an icy trench for a whole year, wearing a thin woolen uniform, exposed to the elements, starving and fighting for my life. Carmela DeMitri materialized from the thin air then stayed with me for three years, sharing her story of When Ice Ran Red.

[Casey May · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really pulled in by the author's descriptions. I found myself reaching for a blanket at times just from his descriptions of the cold and snowy environment that the people within the novel were facing. It was well written and the characters well formed but sometimes I found myself feeling as if certain parts were dragging on a bit and looking forward to the books action picking up again.

[Roger Pepper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sitting high up in Italy’s World War One trenches, while backpacking in the Alps, I tried to wrap my mind around living in an icy trench for a whole year, wearing a thin woolen uniform, exposed to the elements, starving and fighting for my life. Carmela DeMitri materialized from the thin air then stayed with me for three years, sharing her story of When Ice Ran Red.