Edward Arnold

Edward Ronny Arnold's career in writing began in the year 1984. As a doctorial student, he began converting written words to computer commands. "Aesop's Fable - The Hare and the Tortoise" was nominated for a national award in 1989. Edward converted the written story into a computer format with moving text, sound effects, music and animated images of the two animals in a race. Using Timed-Sequence Learning, users selected one of seven reading speeds.

"News Disk" was created in 1989 and it is the first computer program to present the news. The February 1990 issue, dedicated to Black History Month, was included in an exhibit of software at the National Demonstration Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institute in 1992. This special issue included portions of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The actual speech could be heard through the computer's speaker.

He began writing traditional books in the year 2000. His first novel, "Rebecca", was selected for the Forbes Magazine Book Club in 2005. Edward participated in the First Annual Celebration of Inspirational Authors held in conjunction with the 2003 Southern Festival of Books.

Edward has appeared twice in the Southern Festival of Books. "Plato's Dream" was selected for the 2005 festival and "George's Flag" was selected for the 2007 festival. Edward's novels cover a wide range of topics which include: Biblical fiction, politics, horror and historical fiction. Just released is "Robbie's Dillydally, Willy-Nilly, Shilly-Shally Letter to Santa Claus". When Robbie was nine years-old, in the year 1960, he wrote a letter and mailed it. The Post Office never delivered it. Fifty-two years later, the United States Post Office delivers Robbie's belated letter by dropping it from a United States Air Force weather plane at the North Pole.

Creasy the elf retrieves Robbie's letter addressed to: Santa Claus, North Pole. Giving the special air mail delivery letter to Santa; Santa delivers to sixty-one year old Robert, on Christmas Eve, exactly what he asked for when he was nine years-old. Robert is physically too large to enjoy the Christmas presents he always wanted but his adopted three young children, Nicholas, Barry, and Kara, are just the right size.

"Robbie's Dillydally, Willy-Nilly, Shilly-Shally Letter to Santa Claus" is an entertaining look backward and forward to that little boy or little girl always inside each of us.