I have spent my entire career in broadcast journalism, beginning as a writer/reporter at WCCO Radio in Minneapolis in the early ‘60’s, moving on to a similar position at WCCO Television a few years later.In the following years, I was named Associate News Director, News Director, and, finally, as VP/General Manager of the television station. Over those years, the station’s news department became one of the most-honored in the country, winning numerous national and international awards for its reporting and documentary production.
In 1989, after almost thirty years in broadcasting, I retired and began to fulfill a life-long dream of becoming a novelist. Over the next decade, I wrote four novels, all set within the fascinating world of television news.
In 1992, Savage Justice was published in hardcover by Birch Lane Press, and in paperback by HarperPaperbacks. In addition, this book and the others to follow were published in several different foreign countries.
In 1993, Birch Lane Press published my second novel, Cry Vengeance, also in hardcover, with paperback rights again going to HarperPaperbacks.
In 1997, Malice Intended was published as a paperback original by HarperPaperbacks. This book, like the previous two, and by the following two, was set in a mythical television newsroom, featuring journalistic investigations by a provocative cast of characters.
The fourth book, Dead Silence, was published in 1999, also as a paperback original by HarperPaperbacks. This book was a fictionalized version of a real event—the disappearance of three young brothers—in Minneapolis in the early 50’s.
Contact me at ronbooks2010@gmail.com.