Blog Tour and Giveaway: Love Beneath the Mighty Dome by Ronald J. Wichers

Book Details:

Book Title: Love Beneath the Mighty Dome: Volume 1 by Ronald J. Wichers
Category: Adut Fiction, 332 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction, Mystery and Suspense
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release date: September 21, 2017
Tour dates: July 2 to 27, 2018
Content Rating: PG-13

Book Description:

What if you felt that Almighty God had called you personally to devote your life exclusively to His service only to discover that those in charge of your training were people not worthy of your respect? Would you stubbornly stick to your path? Would you rebel and try to change the institution from within? Would you begin to doubt yourself and your own integrity? Or would you question whether the institution itself was actually what its founder, Jesus of Nazareth, had intended so many hundreds of generations before you?

Turn the pages of Love Beneath the Mighty Dome and discover what happens to those confronted by just this dilemma, how it affects their lives, their ability to function, their ability to love.

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Meet the Author:

Ronald J. Wichers was born in Lake Ronkonkoma New York in 1947. He attended Catholic School until 1965, studied History and literature at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas until being drafted into the United States Army in 1970. He was assigned to a rifle company in the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam and, after sustaining severe wounds in a gun battle, including the loss of his left am, was awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the Army Commendation Medal for Heroism and the Bronze Star Medal.

He later studied theology full time at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley California. He has published several short stories about the Vietnam war. The Fear of Being Eaten/A Biography of the Heart is his fifth novel.

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Interview

How did you do research for your book?

The characters and events depicted in the trilogy find their starting point with real people and things that I have actually witnessed or have become common knowledge.

Where do you get inspiration for your stories?

From my experience and my emotional reaction to them.

What advice would you give budding writers?

Persevere, work every day if possible. Be careful to know the true definition of each word used. Slow down and use a dictionary and a thesaurus.

Your book is set in many different cities. Have you ever been there?

Mostly.

If you could put yourself as a character in your book, who would you be?

Each and every character represents people I have known. I can’t help but be there somewhere. 

Do you have another profession besides writing?

No.

How long have you been writing?

Since college. Whenever I read a short story or a novel I could hear inside me a voice saying, “Hey, I can to this. I can do this….”

Do you ever get writer's block? What helps you overcome it?

I don’t experience that.

What is your next project?

I want to put a collection of short stories together.

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Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Fear of Being Eaten by Ronald J Wichers

Book Details:

Book Title: The Fear of Being Eaten: A Biography of the Heart
Author: Ronald J. Wichers
Category: Adult Fiction, 264 pages
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Biographical
Publisher: Mindstir Media
Release date: April 26, 2017
Tour dates: June 25 to July 20, 2018
Content Rating: PG-13 + M

​Book Description:

What if you married a man who didn’t care about you? What if there was a child in the neighborhood for whom you developed a special fondness but was nine when you were nineteen and twenty when you were thirty with two children and a husband who still didn’t care? And what if you were a boy whose only happy memories were a few soft words uttered now and again by a beautiful neighbor ten years your senior and whose voice and face and figure, back-lighted by the golden light of the setting sun, were all that would sustain you when your life was threatened every minute of every day in the mire of a squalid war nobody wanted?

This is the story of Jacqueline and Tommy, their lives stubbornly paralleling with no convergence in sight until one cold night she sees him starving to death on a crowded street filled with happy tourists.

What would you do if you saw him there almost unrecognizable, just another mass of neglected, invisible wreckage? Turn the pages of The Fear of Being Eaten: A Biography of the Heart and find out what happened to Jacqueline Rhondda and Tommy Middleton.

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Meet the Author:

Ronald J. Wichers was born in Lake Ronkonkoma New York in 1947. He attended Catholic School until 1965, studied History and literature at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas until being drafted into the United States Army in 1970. He was assigned to a rifle company in the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam and, after sustaining severe wounds in a gun battle, including the loss of his left arm, was awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the Army Commendation Medal for Heroism and the Bronze Star Medal. He later studied theology full time at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley California. He has published several short stories about the Vietnam war. The Fear of Being Eaten: A Biography of the Heart is his fifth novel.

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Interview

What made you write a book about the Vietnam War?

The weave of stories created in The Fear of Being Eaten -A Biography of the Heart are episodes in my life and those of old friends that I had wanted to describe for many years but were of a type too dark to attempt. How I could put it together at a time so painful is a mystery to me. But it helped.

Where do you get inspiration for your stories?

From experiences, my feelings about them, people associated with them – people and things that seem to demand to be told to grope at a possible meaning.

There are many books out there about the Vietnam War and its aftermath. What makes yours different?

With the exception of Lotus in a Sea of Fire by Thich Nhat Hanh, I haven’t read any books about the Vietnam War. I’ve written honestly and I don’t concern myself with how different The Fear of Being Eaten might or might not be. I have no control over that.

What advice would you give budding writers?

It’s best to write because you love it, because you have a story you feel must be told.

Your book is set in Vietnam, Las Vegas, Reno and other places in the high deserts of Nevada. Have you ever been there?

Yes. I fought in Vietnam. I grew up in Nevada.

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Blog Tour and Giveaway: On the Fault by Ronald J Wichers

Book Details:

Book Title: On the Fault by Ronald J. Wichers
Category: Adult Fiction, 474 pages
Genre: Fictionalized biography
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release date: March 13, 2018
Tour dates: July 2 to 27, 2018
Content Rating: PG-13

Book Description:

“The heart of the planet is broken and the world is bleeding. We come out of the broken-hearted earth and try to mend it.”

True grit mixes with true wit in this tragic, yet strangely triumphant tale of how much one man can lose. Following the Vietnam War, life proves bittersweet as Joe Hearns learns that sometimes finding happiness means changing the definition.

For Joe Hearns the horrors of combat give way to those of daily life upon return to the States; a life burdened by an odd curse that seems to hover over the heads of anyone who fought in that otherwise magical land. He discovers that courage takes on a whole new meaning when coping with a world moving at a different pace – the pace of friendship and love. But, in the end, this proves the way out from under the curse of the war no one wanted.
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When it comes to this soldier’s story the word fearless comes to mind.

To follow the tour, please visit Ronald J. Wichers' page on iRead Book Tours.

Buy the Book:

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Add to Goodreads

Watch the book trailer:

Meet the Author:

Ronald J. Wichers was born in Lake Ronkonkoma New York in 1947. He attended Catholic School until 1965, studied History and literature at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas until being drafted into the United States Army in 1970. He was assigned to a rifle company in the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam and, after sustaining severe wounds in a gun battle, including the loss of his left am, was awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the Army Commendation Medal for Heroism and the Bronze Star Medal.

He later studied theology full time at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley California. He has published several short stories about the Vietnam war. The Fear of Being Eaten/A Biography of the Heart is his fifth novel.

Connect with the author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest ~ Instagram

Interview

How and when did you become a writer? 

My desire to write fiction began in high school. Whenever I read a short story or a novel something inside of me seemed to say, "I can do this. This is me...." In college I took a Creative Writing course and was encouraged by the prof to keep at it.

If there is one thing you want readers to remember about you, what would it be? 

That I have written honestly about what I’ve seen and done. 

What genre do you write?

I write about religion and war.

How would you describe your writing style?

I work from 5AM to 8AM, then 4PM to 7PM, everyday no matter how I feel (unless way too sick to accomplish much. I use a notebook computer. I used to use a standard typewriter. When I think about it I have to laugh – getting white-out dust down my shirt and trousers from painting over errors with that gloppy liquid. I had a crease on my thumb from constantly opening and closing the little tiny bottle. Basically, when it comes to fiction writing, I am self-taught and a big part of that was reading established authors to see how they "pull it off" - writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Connor, Steven Crane, James Joyce, DH Lawrence, the Bronte Sisters, the biblical writers, Cervantes.  

What makes you different from other writers?

I try to write about what I have seen and lived, trying always to be as honest and true to any given story so that, if there is anything unique, it will be seen or felt.

Who inspires you?

I have known a lot of people. I love to write about we, the little people, humble people who have been thrust into, or wandered into, big situations or conflagrations.

I read for style to learn from writers I regard as masters of the art, without imitating. I write only about what I know.

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