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Ronald
L. Donaghe Winner of The Jim Duggins' Outstanding Mid-Career
Novelist award, 2008 SASFEST
New Orleans
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January
23, 2022...
Be sure to check the new CATALOG
feature of
this site. It now contains all the books that Two Brothers Press
has edited for
clients around
the world,
books that TBP
has helped
format in
prepress
format for
clients who
wish to submit
their polished
work to agents
or upload to
the
self-publishing
platforms like
Lulu, Barnes
& Noble,
and of course
Amazon. It
contains
information
and links to
all my books
and updates I
may have made
to them. And
importantly,
TBP is
bringing out a
series of
classics, like
Charles
Dicken's Tale
of Two Cities
(for example)
noted by "A
Two Brothers
Press Classics
Edition."
Check this new
catalog page here.
I'm moving all
my Two
Brothers Press
editing and
prepress
services into
this universe
of web pages.
Most
important, my
new catalog,
that will be
updated
every few days
to keep up
with the new
books being
published for
my clients and
my own
writing.
So
we're finally
coming the
close of this
Covid eventful
year—mainly
due to the
vaccine
hesitant to
get their
shots and thus
(some say)
causing the
virus and its
variants to
linger. I'll
step up and
say I've kept
up the vaccine
shots,
boosters, and
masking and
social
distancing.
Haven't had so
much as a
sniffle for
two years.
Being retired,
I found it
easy to stay
home and work
from here. And
in this sense,
this has to
have been one
of my most
productive
years of my
writing life.
Twenty-eight
books...alas
not all my own
but some were
for writers
whose work I
edited and
also typeset
for a few. I
expanded my
skillset
working on
Amazon's KDP
in learning
how to
effectively
create hard
cover files
but especially
the hardback
covers for
upload. So I
created
several
journals, and
I think fellow
writers might
find them
attractive and
useful.
There's an
especially
large journal
(300 lined
pages in
paperback) for
the really
serious
Journaler. But
any of them
make great
gifts. Go here to see the entire
set of books
I've produced
in 2021 and a
couple of
years earlier.
 Book
I, Cinátis
ASIN:
B09KN2LSQ7
ISBN-13:
979-8758431559
Hardccover 542
pages
$26.95
An allegory for our
troubled times
Twilight of
the Gods, Book
I, Cinátis is
an allegory
for our
troubled
times, where
one country,
Ch'turc, is
controlled by
priests whose
dictates are
enforced by an
army dedicated
to doing their
bidding, where
laws are only
for those who
live under the
rule of the
priests, not
the priests
and government
leaders
themselves. It
is a country
of the big
lie, of
complete and
utter madness,
where even the
rulers live in
fear of their
own people,
where newborns
are put to
death if the
sci-priests
attending them
detect the
ancient
"stain" of a
legendary race
of beings who
have mated
with the
ordinary
population,
which has
resulted in
those who are
"earth
gifted", those
who are
witches and
completely
evil. Ch'turc
is at
perpetual war
against
another
country,
called Omoham,
where the very
thing that is
feared in
Ch'turc is
celebrated in
Omaham.
This
world only has
the two
countries of
Ch'turc and
Omaham; the
rest of the
world is
filled with
great forests,
ice mountains,
lands of toxic
swamps, and
enchanted seas
that will
reject anyone
who attempts
to sail them
or swim in
their waters.
Omoham is the
land of the
"gifted" who
live in
harmony with
nature;
Ch'turc is the
land of
industrialization,
where natural
resources are
becoming
depleted, of
factories that
pollute the
atmosphere, of
the untold
wealth for the
few and
grinding
poverty for
the many.
In
this first
book in the
"Twilight of
the Gods"
series,
Ch'turc makes
its move to
finally
enslave
Omoham. Some
said it was a
real plague, a
pandemic,
sweeping
across the
land; others
said it was a
great lie,
perpetrated by
secretive
priests, and
spread by the
Ch'turc armed
forces who
would enslave
a country for
their own
gain. But one
thing is
real—the FEAR
that drove
thousands from
their homes in
the dead of
winter. They
headed north
from the
cities of the
plain, toward
the ice
mountains of a
country ruled
by the priests
and false
patriots,
The
takeover of
the country of
Omoham seems
inevitable,
and yet, when
all seems
lost, when an
entire country
is in danger
of giving rise
to a dictator,
a savior
appears with
unstoppable
power, able to
either save
the world,
or...destroy
it.
The Early Journals of Will Barnett: Uncle
Sean • Lance •
All Over Him
ASIN
B09M11BT2X
ISBN-13:
979-8768644154
Hardcover, 509
pages
$25.95
When
fourteen year
old Will
Barnett meets
his Uncle
Sean, Will is
instantly
captivated by
his uncle's
beauty and
begins at that
moment to fall
in love. That
such love is
dangerous and
forbidden,
young Will is
only vaguely
aware. He is
driven to
write about
his Uncle Sean
and begins
with these
words: "Uncle
Sean sure is
pretty, but
there's
something
wrong with
him, anyway."
"Donaghe's
magic in
crafting this
tale was
writing Will's
journal in the
voice of a
fourteen year
old. The book
is so
realistic that
one wonders
what has
become of Sean
and Will since
the box
containing
Will's
journals was
stowed away in
the barn
thirty years
ago..."
—John R.
Selig,
Foreword
Magazine
I finally
created
Amazon's very
helpful
"author's
page" which
you can find here.
It lists all
my books and
all my
blogs...to a
point. Some of
my work is
under an
entirely
different name
and won't
intersect with
my writing as
myself. It
might seem to
some of you
who check in
occasionally
that since
I've moved to
Mississippi,
I've been less
active than I
was before.
But the exact
opposite is
true. I have
complete three
novels, a
collection of
autobiographical
essays, and
two
interactive
writing
workbooks.
I've also
edited
numerous books
for local
writers, a
client in
Denmark, two
writers from
California,
and another
client from
New Mexico,
using my Two Brothers Press editing
and prepress
publishing
company.
In the past
five years, I
have written
the Summer's
Change
trilogy, which
are inclusive
of Books 5, 6,
and 7 in the "Common
Threads in the
Life"
series.
 Also,
while here in
Mississippi, I
wrote my
definitive and
up-to-date Slices
of Real Life:
Autobiographical
Essays. It
is now available
in hardcover
at Amazon.
I collected
many of the
essays from
literary
anthologies
that are no
longer in
print and
whose
copyrights
have reverted
back to me.
But I also
updated and
reorganized
these essays
in a more
appropriate
order, so that
the essays
toward the end
of the book
are present
life and allow
for future
updates. This
is my
leaves-of-grass-esque
endeavor, and
I will update
it should that
be necessary.
I chose the
title of Slices
of Real Life
to distinguish
my fiction
works, which
readers
continue to
insist is
autobiographical,
but it's not.
Take advantage
of my 40
years'
experience as
a writer,
editor, and
fiction
evaluator with
these
interactive
workbooks, all
written in
2021
   And
also while
here in
Mississippi, I
began
producing
high-intensity
interactive
workbooks for
new and
seasoned
writers. I
brought 40
years of
experience to
these
workbooks as a
professional
editor and
having written
hundreds of
book
evaluations,
mainly fiction
in many genres
I produced the
second book.
The third book
in this series
is sitting at
the back of my
subconscious,
busily writing
itself, and
it's simply
called Finding
Your Writer's
Voice..
And as the
creative
juices flow
and
inspiration
comes and sits
beside me on
little cat's
feet, I've
come up with a
cover, which I
will reveal
when it's more
substantial.
Series
Spin-offs
I will write
spin-offs in
the Common
Threads
series, but
their focus
will only be
an echo of Tom
and Joel's
life. They'll
be mentioned
when necessary
but not
central to the
stories. In Joe
Welling and
the Cowboys,
I take a
refugee from
the gay
subculture and
move him
farther and
farther away
from it, until
he truly finds
himself in a
milieu of a
different
sort. And in Granny
Mack and the
Gas Station at
the end of the
World,
we have
another
refugee of
sorts who
comes to the
end of the
road in the
middle of
nowhere and
has only the
barest of
chances to
hand off her
grandson to
the world
before she
takes her
final bow on
the stage of
life. —Or
maybe that's
what these two
novels will be
about.
I
want to remind
you that since
moving here, I
have been
blogging about
my experiences
living
in
Mississippi,
in Postcards from
Mississippi.
I'm
continuing to
discover
Columbus and,
when I get a
chance to
travel outside
of town, I
discover more
of
Mississippi.
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Currently, ten of my
novels are available on the
Amazon Kindle e-reader...
Common
Sons
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The Blind
Season
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The
Salvation Mongers
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The
Gathering
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Uncle
Sean
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Lance
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All Over
Him
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The Runaway
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A Season of Family
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The Rest of Their Lives
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The
Thinking Man—Blog
I've
been
working on a blog for a few years,
but I've never done anything to show
it to the world. So, here it is.
It's called "The Thinking Man," and
in it, I write about subjects that
strike me as interesting. I invite
comments, and I have no idea if the
thing allows me to censor/filter/or
even respond to the comments. Here's
the link: http://thinkingman-ron.blogspot.com/
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My Work
Common Threads
in the Life
Now
Published in Kindle
The Journals of
Will Barnett
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