Ronald D. Giles

Ron Giles was a teacher of American History for three years before changing careers. For the next thirty years, he was involved in television production and management, working at WBNS-TV, WCPO-TV, WBZ-TV, QUBE Cable, Mullin Television Productions and QVC, where he created their television format and managed the television part of their operation for the first ten years of QVC's life. Having finished a stint as a consultant, working with media companies in Great Britain, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, China, South Korea, and Australia, Ron turned his eye towards writing.

In 2008, "On Harrisonville Avenue" was published -- an amusing coming of age memoir about growing up in a steel mill town. In 2009, his second book, "Cottonwood Pass" was published, as Ron delved into the world of suspense and global politics with a book set in Colorado. In 2011, the third book, "Great Heats" a novel of historic fiction set 1000 years ago among the mounds and earthworks of what is now Southern Ohio, was published and is available.

In 2013, "Locusts and Wild Honey" appeared. A metaphysical drama, the reader will find a curse, a scheming divorcee, a mysterious black dog and a minister with a secret he is keeping from his congregation.

Two short stories (excerpted from his existing writing) have been included in collections of short stories. In 2011, "The Prey" appeared in the volume "Chester County Fiction," edited by Jim Breslin, and in 2015, Ron's "The Friday Night Dance" was included in "Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio," edited by Neil Carpathios, published by Ohio University Press.

2018 found Ron coordinating the editing and publication of "The Collected Writings of the Reverend Doctor Mark Wayne Bailey," published by Church of the Loving Shepherd, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

"The Porter Curse," a novel of the paranormal will be published mid-year 2020. It is the story of a young couple trying to end a generational curse levied upon the husband's family in 1692 near the town of Salem, Massachusetts.

Ron describes his work as "a good story that is engaging and easy to read." You may follow his work by visiting www.ronalddgiles.author.com.