Welcome to the Online Press Room for Award-Winning Author Ronda Del Boccio
Contact
Email connect at” Inner Guidance On Demand dot” com
Call 575-737-8679
Social Web
Downloadable Press Kit
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219 Media Appearances
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March 4 on UpJourney: The Benefits of Reading (According to 26 People Who Read Every Day)
https://upjourney.com/benefits-of-reading-according-to-people-who-read-every-day
March 3 Beyond the Strange Podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/user/beyondthestrange/the-story-lady-author-psychic-ronda-del-
February 14 Author Ronda Del Boccio on Grammar Girl #662
Feb 1 Meet the Authors Festival at Kimberling Area Library
Jan 8 Paranormal Punchers Episode 52
(See early appearances below.)
New York Publisher The Wild Rose Press to Publish Ronda Del Boccio’s Paranormal Urban Fantasy Book: They All Died Smiling
The Wild Rose Press, a New York publisher, published my new adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling, first in the Reluctant Demon Hunter Saga.
Latest News and Events
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Ronda Del Boccio Bios to Use
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Short bio:
Ronda Del Boccio is a blind, award-winning author, artist, and photographer living in rural Missouri with her golden retriever guide dog, Diva. She has authored several books, including: They All Died Smiling, The Peace Seed, The Story of Impact, Trust Your Heart: Building Relationships that Build Your Business, and I’ll Push You Steer. Her short stories, photography, poems and articles have appeared in over two dozen anthologies and publications across four continents. Download free stories, including a sneak peek of her new paranormal/urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling, at WriteOnPurpose.com/read.
Long bio:
Ronda Del Boccio is an award-winning author, speaker, and Queen of BLISS. She lives in rural Missouri with her gorgeous golden retriever guide dog, Diva. Her short stories, poems and articles appear in over two dozen anthologies and periodicals across five continents. She has authored and co-authored a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction.
She has also won awards for her singing, teaching, cooking, art, photography, writing, and translation of a medieval cookbook. As you can tell, her interests are diverse. Anything she wants to do or experience, she makes happen.
Although she is “legally blind,” which she says means she’s “illegally sighted,” Ronda lives a full and active life. She travels, cooks, and tries new ventures. Nothing stops her!
Her newest release is a paranormal/urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling. Ronda is also the Amazon #1 bestselling author of several books, including Trust Your Heart: Building Relationships that Build Your Business, Mindset Masters: Achieve Anything, Anytime, Anywhere, The Peace Seed: Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling and the fantasy anthology When Assassins and Allies Conspire as well as several other titles.
Download free stories, including the sneak peek of her new paranormal suspense novel They All Died Smiling, at WriteOnPurpose.com/read.
Web Appearances and Interviews
Ronda Del Boccio is available to speak to book clubs, the media, podcasts, bloggers, YouTubers, and more. Call 575-737-8679 or email info@WriteOnPurpose.com.
Downloadable Press Kit
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Why I Am a Great Guest for You and Your Media Outlet
As a media personality with loads of experience on both sides of the mic/camera, I know what I wish all my guests had done to help the producers and make the most of the opportunity. So, I provide you that quality experience. Please let me know anything more I can do to make your job even easier. I’m coachable!
I Google well with about 24,000 results currently.
- I’m comfortable with appearing “in a pinch” for anything I can do from my location (as I don’t drive). Did you have a cancellation? Need a quick article in my wheelhouse? Call me and see if I can save your bacon!
- I LOVE speaking to groups.
- I’m highly interactive. I LOVE connecting with your readers/listeners/viewers.
- My highest desire is to serve your audience, make your life easier, and provide huge value to everyone receiving the interview.
- I’m a published author.
- I’ve been a performer and speaker since childhood.
- I’m super-comfortable in interviews whether written, audio (podcasts/radio), or video.
- I am prepared. Case in point, this press kit with questions.
- I promote my media ops like crazy, before and after all over social media.
- I write and deploy promo pieces (such as emails to my subscribers, videos, blog posts and social posts) with nuggets of info. I am happy to give these to my host to use, if you like.
- I’m lively and edutaining for your audience. I can even do the dreaded after-lunch slot at a conference.
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More about Ronda Del Boccio
Worldwide Who’s Who Press release:
Ronda Del Boccio Named Professional of the Year in Authorship
LAMPE, MO, April 8, 2015, Ronda Del Boccio, Author and Mentor of Ronda Del Boccio, has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in Authorship. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership. Ms. Del Boccio has 32 years of professional experience, with 10 years of experience as an author, speaker and mentor of her self-titled sole proprietorship. Throughout her career, she has become adept at teaching and inspiring authors, and she shares her creative vision with others. Each day, she connects and mentors young authors for their upcoming books, while also dealing with clients spearheading social networking initiatives. She is constantly on the lookout for other Internet-based businesses, focusing particularly on awakening authors and their challenges.
Looking back, Ms. Del Boccio attributes her success to her persistence and passion for writing and storytelling. She became involved in her profession because she loved storytelling and books at a young age. She wanted to be the captain of her own ship, and chose to develop and progress her creativity in business. Her persistence has paid off, since she has received numerous awards for her works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Ms. Del Boccio received a master’s degree in counselor education from Illinois State University and a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, religious studies, writing and psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She is a member of the Ozarks Writers League and contributes to Ten Million Clips for Peace.
Ronda Del Boccio is an author, mentor and writer who provides literature and mentoring services. For more information about Ronda Del Boccio, visit http://www.writeonpurpose.com.
With over 500,000 members representing every major industry, Worldwide Who’s Who is a powerful networking resource that enables professionals to outshine their competition, in part through effective branding and marketing. Worldwide Who’s Who employs similar public relations techniques to those utilized by Fortune 500 companies, making them cost-effective for members who seek to take advantage of its career enhancement and business advancement services.Worldwide Who’s Who membership provides individuals with a valuable third-party endorsement of their accomplishments, and gives them the tools needed to brand themselves and their businesses effectively. In addition to publishing biographies in print and electronic form, it offers an online networking platform where members can establish new professional relationships.
For more information, please visit http://www.worldwidewhoswho.com.
Contact:
- Ellen Campbell
- Director, Media Relations
- Worldwide Who’s Who
- Email: multimedia@worldwidewhoswho.com
Get My Books
Ronda’s books on Amazon.
For Immediate Release: Author Ronda Del Boccio
Ronda Del Boccio learned that people considered her different in a bad way when she was about six years old. She does not see the same way others do, and in the world of children, this is cause for bullying and harassment. Yet Ronda took what she now calls a “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” attitude, because fitting in was not of great importance to her.
Ronda may not see well, but she has a strong vision that guides her life. She uses the power that comes from her blindness to empower her and inspire others. She believes Persistence,tenacity, humor, intuition and ingenuity are traits that serve her well now as an entrepreneur author.
She has turned her love for storytelling, mythology, symbology and folklore into books, short stories, tools and teachings that help people better understand themselves and more easily connect with everyone. Like Kathie Lee Gifford, she KNOWS “Everyone has a story” and she helps them tell it with ease and style.
Ronda loves writing. “It gives me a chance to get paid to eavesdrop and spy on people,” she quips. She is internationally published on 5 continents and has won awards for her tales.
She is working on the novel she began in November 2014 during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo It’s called They All Died Smiling, a paranormal suspense story about an unwilling demon fighter trying to save lives while she herself is targeted.
Ronda’s BLISS Butterfly Author Success System
The B.L.i.S.S. System
BLISS Butterfly System | Write On Purpose
Ronda makes it easy for any visionary to write and publish a book following the BLISS Butterfly Author Success System: Learn more on the BLISS page..).
Possible Interview Questions
You certainly do not need to stick to these, but this should make your life easier. Use the questions that best suit your audience, but don’t feel limited. I LOVE “winging it,” so you do not need to stick to what’s here. I’ll go with the flow.
Personal Questions
- Are you totally blind?
- Have you been blind all your life?
- Your writing is so descriptive. How do you make me see everything in my mind when you don’t see?
- How many guide dogs have you had?
- In your inspirational nonfiction book, I’ll Push You Steer you talk about training your own guide dogs. Why did you do that?
- Your current dog, Diva, came from a school, didn’t she? What made you choose a school over training a dog yourself?
- You talk about “gifts of blindness.” Do you really feel being unable to see has gifts or benefits?
Questions about Psychic Stuff
- You call yourself a psychic medium. What does that mean?
- Is there a difference between being sensitive to spirits and being a medium?
- How long have you had these abilities?
- Can you share a specific early memory?
- How did your family react to your abilities when you were a child?
- How do you feel about cemeteries?
- Has a spirit ever harmed you?
- Is there anything people can do to ward off spirits?
- If someone thinks they might have some psychic or intuitive abilities, wat can they do to develop them?
- What about places? Is every haunting because of spirits of the dead?
- Can an object be haunted? If so, is there any way to clean or clear it?
- Your main character Kassidy from They All Died Smiling talks about putting on her “golden armor” when dealing with the supernatural. Is this purely fictitious, or would something like this work for real people?
- You have a free gift on your website to help people learn “psychic self defense.” What’s in this free class, and how can people get it?
Questions about My Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Novel They All Died Smiling
- What is this book about?
- Where and when does it take place?
- How did you come up with the title?
- What inspired you to write this story?
- What sets this book apart?
- Where can people read a free sample of the book?
- Who are the main characters?
- Why was writing this book important to you?
- Is this the kind of book that will keep readers up all night?
- Have you published any other paranormal or urban fantasy books?
- Do the supernatural events in the book come purely from your imagination, or do some of them come from your experience?
- Do you believe demons are real?
- Do you believe there is any way for people to keep themselves safe from supernatural attack?
Psychic/Medium Questions
- How long have you been a medium?
- How did you know you were a medium?
- Does anyone else in your family have strong intuition or what some might call psychic abilities?
- Is everyone psychic or intuitive?
- Can intuition be learned? If so, how?
- What can someone do if they feel an item is creepy or possessed?
- What can someone do if they’re in a place that feels creepy?
- What’s the difference between someone who is a medium and someone who can sense spirits?
Writing Questions
- What inspires your writing?
- What do you love most about writing?
- How has being mostly blind affected your writing? What do you love to write about most?
- Four out of five people want to write a book, but few do. Why?
- How has self-publishing changed opportunities for authors?
- Is it easier or harder to establish yourself as an author today?
- Is there any formula or template for writing a nonfiction book?
- You often say there’s more to being an author than just writing a book. What do you mean by that?
- How has social media changed the way authors promote books? What is the BLISS Butterfly system you teach?
Storytelling Questions
- Why are stories so powerful?
· Is hearing or reading a story just as compelling for adults as it is for children?
· You say that everyone is wired for stories, why are so few people good at telling stories?
· What are the 3 essential elements that make a good story?
· Can anyone learn how to tell a good story?
· Why is emotion so important?
· Do people tell themselves stories?
· Can someone change the stories they’re telling themselves?
Media appearances include:
Podcasts
New episodes come out every Thursday at noon ET.
The logo is a bright blue background with white lettering. THis makes it easy to read and represents the sky and openness. The image of the bumblebee with a mafnifying glass represents the idea that just as a bumbleb ee shouldn’t be able to fly but does, nothing is impossible for people with low vision/partial sight/blindness.
Radio
Ronda Del Boccio was guest booker and co-host of the international radio show Relationship marketing 101.
Her show is a Host Pick on “In Touch with Carl Jung”
Featured show: “Networking with the Blindguy: Are You a Tire Kicker or a Destiny Driver?”
Television
Ronda Del Boccio and Bonnie Tesh, co-authors of I’ll Push You Steer on Springfield, Missouri Good Morning Springfield.
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Ronda has numerous stories, poems and articles in print.
She was the “Home Front” and “The Inbox” columnist for Dialogue Magazine, an international news magazine produced by Blindskills, Inc., for people who are blind and visually impaired. (These articles are not currently online.)
Ronda has numerous print publications to her credit, including “Molly Meets the Ozarks” in Ozark Mountaineer Magazine.
Other MEdia
Book Writing Made Easy Joins Heart and Marketing
If only we’d known early on how book writing made easy can join with heart marketing to create a joyful experience of both self-expression and selling and marketing.
But no… instead…The other day we found the first document we wrote together (an advice doc about relationship problems that we advertised in the National Enquirer in 1987…shhhhh)
Fortunately we sold only one of them and promptly put ourselves out of that ‘Mail-order” business idea
AND thank goodness! The writing was horrible! Truly a mish-mash with no organization, no focus – quite a mess!
Now we later went on to become the authors of 5 best-sellers – 4 books about romantic relationships and our latest – The Heart of Marketing – Love Your Customers and They Will Love You Back (Morgan James)
BUT – oh what we would have given for someone with the right expertise to guide us through the book writing process to make it easier and faster. And if only there had been someone who could have guided us through the process of discovering the soul-felt service of heart marketing our books –
But there was no one…
Now we know that the real fact is, writing a book is easy when you have a step-by-step roadmap to guide you from start to publish – and beyond – and The Story Lady Ronda Del Boccio’s program helps you plan for your larger future with your book – even before you start writing.
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Ronda’s Books
Ronda’s books are available everywhere See her Amazon profile. In addition to these books, she has contributions in 2 dozen fiction and poetry anthologies.
Nonfiction
#1 Best Seller – Instant Author Formula: 6 Lazy Ways to Write a Book Fast! 2012
The Impact Factor with Ken McArthur
Activate Your Breakthrough with Anne L. Holmes
#1 Best Seller – Trust Your Heart: Building Relationships that Build Your Business with Marnie Pehrson et al
I’ll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On November 2006, AWOC Books
#1 Best Seller – The Peace Seed: Personal and GLobal Transformation through Storytelling: May, 2010
The Instant VIP: Insider Secrets to Fame, Freedom and Fulfillment as an Expert AUTHOR!: August 2010 AWOC Books
Fiction
Best Seller – When Assassins and Allies Conspire: Visionary Tales, VOl. 1 September, 2010, CreateSpace
the Assassin and the Prince – a quriky young adult space opera.
A Tasty Morsel: a quirky paranormal romance
Best Seller Screenshots
Ronda’s Best Selling Books
Examples of Ronda’s Students’ Successes
Contact Ronda Del Boccio
Email: info “at” Write On Purpose “dot” com
Phone or text message 575-737-8679
