Interview with Author Ronnie Ashmore

 

Welcome Readers toanother installment of our author interview series. Today we have the pleasureof chatting with Ronnie Ashmore, author of Western Novel and Crime Fiction.

JMR-Welcome to theBooks Delight, Ronnie. Tell our readers where you live, what you do for fun andwhat does the perfect day look like?

RA- I live inStephenville, Texas. Fun for me is either travelling, playing golf, or justhanging out and smoking a good cigar.

JMR-What’s yourfavorite historical time period? Why?

RA- I have a deeppassion for the 19th Century, the old west era, and I think it's because I likethe history of that time period and the people that lived in that world.

JMR-Who is yourfavorite historical figure? Why? If you could ask them one question, what wouldit be?

RA-Way too many toconsider, but off the top of my head I would say Bill Hickok. His lifefascinates me because it is hard to separate fact from fiction. Often he wasthe one telling the lies. My question would be, "Why didn't you just gohome to your wife?"

JMR- How did you cometo be a writer of historical fiction?

RA-Well, I don'tconsider myself a historical fiction writer, I consider myself a western and acrime writer. While i do include and am respectful and truthful with the factsh,my people aren't tied down to those facts.

JMR- Western Fiction isa subgenre of Historical Fiction. Other than setting, what are key elementsthat set it apart from standard HisFic.

RA-Historical fiction,at least to me, others may disagree, is the historical parts dictate thefictional parts. The people are bound to follow the historical trail with nodeviations from the facts. Westerns have the history, location, settings, andsuch, but the people are still free to move within those boundaries to tell astory.

JMR- It’s stillpossible to find faint traces of the old West. Have you visited any locationsthat gave you inspiration for settings in your books?

RA-Most of my storiesare set in Texas. So, I am familiar with some of the places I write about.Other places are fictional towns wholly made up.

JMR- Ronnie, tell usabout your new book, Lawman: A Jim Long Western.

RA-It is the 2nd bookin a series about Jim Long. A man who returns to his Leon River area home andfinds things to be different than he expected. Lawman is Long being the law forhis town and what he must do to protect the people, whether he wants to or not.

JMR-What projects doyou have in the pipeline?

RA-I always havesomething working, whether it be a western or a crime mystery, which I enjoywriting about too.

JMR- Tell our readershow to find you on social media and the web.

RA-I'm on Facebook,Instagram and Twitter. ronnieashmorebooks. also, email me atronnieashmorebooks@gmail.com I always love to hear from and interact with otherfolks.

JMR- What question wereyou hoping I’d ask but didn’t?

RA-Nothing. Iappreciate the chance to do this and thank you for letting me take part.

JMR- Thank you, Ronnie,for stopping by. Your books look really great! Readers, I’ve included a link toRonnie’s books below. Please be sure to check them out.