This is flash fiction, a 100-word story. In this week’s story, you’ll encounter young Russ and Uncle Walt,from last week’s story, “The New Girl,” and you meet the new girl herself,young Kassidy. In my paranormal Urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling, from the Reluctant Demon Hunter series, Kassidy tells her roommate Julie about the time Russ ran away to go to the city. Here’s the flash fiction version of that tale.Ronda Del Boccio, author PHOTO PROMPT © Dawn M. Miller Little Rock By Ronda Del Boccio For FridayFictioneers, December 7, 2018 Genre: Mainstream... Read More

I will be at the quarterly conference of Ozarks Writers league Saturday, August 18 from 9 AM to 3 PM. If you’d like a copy of my new book They All Died Smiling or any of my handmade greeting cards, please come to the Cardinal Room, which is right behind the breakfast room. This urban fantasy is now available everywhere! Want a sneak peek of the book? Go to WriteOnPurpose.com/read and grab yours now! Cheers to your #BlissfulLife! Ronda Del Boccio #1 best selling author and speaker Award winning author, photographer and artist About Ronda Del Boccio Ronda Del Boccio is an award-winning... Read More

Are you a fan of paranormal romance and urban fantasy? If you are and/or you know someone who is, please keep reading and shareThe Wild Rose Press is publishing it soon. Before the progress update, here’s why you want the book… Kassidy Spence just wants to live her life, but her intrusive gift turns her world inside out…again. Her power to see demons inside people brought her to ruin once. She refuses to use it again… …until using her power could mean the difference between life and death. When Kassidy borrows the hottest new self-help book for women from a friend,... Read More

A self-help corruption. A hypnotic coercion. A demonic collusion. Could a wildly popular self-help author be lulling heartbroken young women to their death? When several seemingly separate events rouse Kassidy’s suspicions, the professional busybody embarks on a relentless search for the truth. Kassidy’s despised “gift” of seeing demons in people re-awakens during her Friday commute home. Her roommate loans her a hot new women’s self-help book. Her boss at the paper sends her to cover a drowning. The dead woman wears an ecstatic smile on her face…just like a motorcycle accident victim... Read More

The first Tuesday of each month, I’m sharing an update on my writing projects so you get a sense of what is going on. It will include any funny bits that happened along the way too. And I’m aware it’s FRIDAY as I write this. Better late than never, right? I always say it’s not about perfection, and I’m DEFINITELY imperfect! I’ll shot for the right day next month. And have I mentioned lately that I SUCK at time? Here are my updates. Read More  Read More

UPDATE 11/27/17: this book comes out soon from The Wild Rose Press. Get your free sneak peek here. I just did an interview for a funeral home. Not a job interview. The kind a writer gives to an interested party. Yeah, I don’t know “why Ronda” either, but there it is. Anyway, the topic of grief naturally arose, and I mentioned how grief infiltrates life the way a teabag infuses its essence into water. Grief can be a powerful motivator for a wide variety of actions a character takes (or does not take).  For the reader, seeing how the protagonist or other character responds... Read More

Today while working on They All Died Smiling, on my mad dash to 50,000 words this month for NaNoWriMo,  I needed to deal with an angry phone call without suddenly introducing swear words into an otherwise clean book. At meetings of the Northwest Arkansas Writer’s Workshop, when an author is reading their allowed five pages, sometimes there is a cuss word on the page but the author replaces it with something more for a G-rated audience. We travelers talked about cussing and steamy scenes in writing on the road back home.  None of our group prefers Rated-R type content. I’m pretty... Read More

How do you bring your minor characters to life? I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month, NaoWriMo, My book is They All Died Smiling, a paranormal suspense story. Today I was thinking about minor characters and what I do to make the come to life. Honestly, even the minor characters typically simply “come to me.” Occasionally I base one off of someone from my real life, but mostly they present themselves to me. When I need a minor character, I like to know one thing that makes them stand out. It’s not necessary to invent a whole back story for them.When I needed... Read More