Interview With Author Ronald Schulz
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I try to live life to the fullest, regardless of circumstances like poverty and the ups and downs of friendship and love. I was born in Chicago in 1952 and dropped out to explore the Sixties counterculture across the United States before hitchhiking across Europe and Africa, working and loving my way on a roundabout Buddhist pilgrimage to Nepal. That is the subject of several more upcoming books. Now I am a semi-retired hobo, writing my honest history of those tumultuous times. I also hope to honor the memory of my many bygone companions before I vanish from this planet and feel assured of further adventures somewhere in the vast cosmos. I have two books already published with two more in the pipeline awaiting publication and am working on a continuing series of life adventures.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I write true stories, inspired my my experiences. Reality thrills me and my life has not been a bore. HOME AT THE EDGE, a sequel to my first book, Chicago Rage, takes you back to the Sixties Revolution, from jail to the madhouse. It is an on the road and in the streets memoir of free-loving, acid dropping radical youth in 1969, that still resonates today. In Chicago Rage we last saw 17-year-old Ron lying handcuffed over the hood of a car. We pick up with him entering Chicago’s Cook County Jail, where he and his radical companions are kept segregated from the other prisoners to prevent them from, god forbid, being a bad influence on murders and rapists.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, but I have to fit it into my busy life when I can. Inspiration is the key, I am a Fire sign and simply follow where my excited memory takes me.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Victor Frankl comes to mind, as does Jung, Herodotus, and innumerable ancient and modern writers who probe into deep reality to discover what makes us tick and record the events that shape us.
What are you working on now?
The story of Karma Farm, the commune in Wisconsin that I was part of from 1970 and it is still a part of our evolving society based on the natural environment.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My Facebook page, Ronald Schulz, Books and Bluster, but my publisher’s site, Tumbleweed Books, is a good connector too https://daowenpublications.ca/our-authors/
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Find your passion first and write from that. Something that excites you will keep you going to surmount all that the vicissitudes of life inevitably throws at you.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
We need to balance our life between the extremes, be bold, but also cautious enough to survive and find joy even in adversity. Don’t forget to glory in all that surrounds you, because death stalks all of us and will win in the end. Welcome death lie a friend when it comes with a clear conscience, for it is a portal to your further exploration.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Death is ever neigh, reaching for us. And so I continue to open the portals of memory and observe my people and surroundings with the hope and prayer that it will inspire and benefit an ocean of posterity.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
That is a hard choice between spirituality, history and pornography, Buddha’s Sutra and Tantra, and the Kama Sutra too would be a well rounded collection, but all that I’ve read continues to inspire my wandering body and spirit, working in concert. But all I’ve read stays with me even as my eyes fail and books burn around me.
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