Michigan author Ronald L. Herron, won a 2012 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for his debut novel REICHOLD STREET. He repeated the performance with a 2013 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal in the Young Adult Fantasy genre for his story collection ZEBULON. In 2016 he won a Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal for his horror/thriller BLOOD LAKE.
He writes an ongoing blog about indie publishing called PAINTING WITH LIGHT...where he talks about everything from other indie authors, to e-Book formatting, to the ins-and-outs of constructing a lively, interesting story.
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Get ONE WAY STREET, the second book in the Award-Winning Suspense/Thriller Series Everyone's Talking About
In his debut novel, REICHOLD STREET, author R.L. Herron created a powerful coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous Vietnam War era that Kirkus Reviews called "Skillfully written and emotionally strong."
Set during and immediately after the turbulent 1960s, the electrifying, 5-Star suspense-filled sequel, ONE WAY STREET, follows several key "Reichold Street" characters in a tense, gritty, historically-accurate thriller.
Masterfully written in the manner of...

Get STREET LIGHT, the Third Installment of the Award-Winning Suspense/Thriller Series Everyone's Talking About
In his debut novel, REICHOLD STREET, author R.L. Herron created a powerful coming-of-age story set in the tumultuous Vietnam War era. Dealing with the tough issues of family dysfunction, alcoholism, bullying, suicide, madness and war, it was selected as a 2012 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner that Kirkus Reviews called "Skillfully written and emotionally strong."
In the 5-Star sequel, ONE WAY STREET, the characters react in a tense, gritty,...

Get BLOOD LAKE, the new novel from award-winning author R.L. Herron, that everyone's talking about. A 2016 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner selected as a Foreword INDIE Book-of-the-Year Finalist, it was also named by the online review magazine Shelf Unbound as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2016.
No one knows how long the Cherokee have lived in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, although artifacts indicate their ancestors were there more than 11,000 years ago...at the end of the last Ice Age.

One of the most despicable events in American history began after...

THE TIME TO BE MOST AFRAID IS WHEN THINGS START GOING WELL.
Paul Barrett is a successful author. So are brothers Randy and Donnie Camron. Along with the rest of the gang from Reichold Street, they think their lives have finally settled down. However, there are new disasters lurking, determined to find them, wherever they go.

In this provocative thriller, DEAD END STREET, the characters discover the past is not always as far behind them as they thought.

REICHOLD STREET, the lead novel in the series, was selected a 2012 Readers' Favorite...