Ron Franscell's Blog, page 7
December 10, 2021
In defense of Ebenezer Scrooge
I originally wrote this essay as a newspaper column in 1995. It appears here today with a few minor but festive updates because, well, Scrooge is timeless. No businessman in the history of literature has been as misunderstood as Ebenezer Scrooge. His very name is now a synonym for pinch-fisted churlishness and humbuggery. Why? Certainly…
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October 29, 2021
Pre-order SHADOWMAN in bookstores everywhere
We know you have many choices for your reading pleasure ... so you can pre-order Ron Franscell's upcoming true crime at your favorite bookseller here.
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September 22, 2021
Missing White Woman Syndrome and the silence of minority advocates
The Gabby Petito case has stirred fascination, sympathy, and a hornet’s nest of unrest about “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” an accusation that racist white media prefers stories about pretty Caucasian girls in peril, but not so much minority women in peril. There’s some truth to that perception, but it’s not always what it seems. …
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September 7, 2021
How many times can one life change?
One horror haunts another ... and how they are tangled in one intimate book
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September 3, 2021
SHADOWMAN cover revealed!
Look for this cool new jacket March 1 at a bookstore near you
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July 8, 2021
Pain & memory: The birth of Angel Fire
“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget what makes you smile. Suffering has its meaning, and memory has its graces.” —from ANGEL FIRE, A Novel A lifetime ago, back in 1983, I took work as an editor at…
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June 24, 2021
SHADOWMAN: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
The entangled tales of a harrowing crime and the introduction of the FBI's newest forensic tool: criminal profiling
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June 19, 2021
New book trailer for SHADOWMAN
Just a taste of Ron Franscell's chilling tale about a real-life nightmare ... and how it changed forensic history
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June 14, 2021
Set your DVR for ‘Alice & Gerald’ on Oxygen network
They killed at least five people and damn near got away with it. Then a lucky break changed everything.
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June 12, 2021
You can pre-order ‘SHADOWMAN: An Elusive Psycho and the Birth of FBI Profiling
The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to help catch a serial killer
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