R. J. Hore

Ronald Hore had three stories published in a writer's group anthology in 2005 and in 2006 won a Canadian Author's Association national short story contest for a ghostly love story. His short story Chrysalis appeared in the modern vampire collection Evolve in 2010.

In 2012, writing as R.J.Hore, his first full-length novel, The Dark Lady, a medieval-style fantasy was published by Burst Books.ca. (A division of Champagne Book Group) This tale has since been turned into a trilogy with Dark Days and Dark Knights. A second series of swords, magic and romance novels followed, The Queen's Pawn, also now a trilogy with The Queen's Man in 2015 and The Queen's Game in 2016.

A stand alone, slightly different fantasy novel, Alex in Wanderland, was released in 2015

The first book of a space opera trilogy: "Of Destiny's Daughters" arrived in 2019 with book two "Hammer Across the Stars" and and book three "Expeditions to Earth" in 2020.. That makes 14 full length novels and eventually 4 Omnibus Housetrap collections..

His slightly off the wall fantasy detective series, The Housetrap Chronicles got off the ground with the Housetrap, the first of a fantasy detective series of novellas. This was followed by Dial M for Mudder and House on Hollow Hill. These have also been collected in a volume 1 anthology in paperback.

Next in this fantasy detective series came Hounds of Basalt Ville, Murder in the Rouge Mort, and The Treasure of the Sarah Madder, also now available in print in a second collection.

A seventh in the Housetrap series, Menagerie A Trois, joined the group in 2015 followed by number eight. Murder on the Disoriented Express and number nine Silence of the Sands in 2020. These were released in a third omnibus collection. .

By 2022 the Houstrap series was complete, with The Road to Hell is Paved With Parsnips followed by 'Twas the Week Before the Night in 2021 and the final episode. The Mid-Winter Cuckoos at Midnight in early 2022. A fourth collection containing these last three will follow in 2022.

Ron signed on with a second publisher, eTreasures from Florida, and his first book with them, a Sci fi thriller "We're Not in Kansas" was released in early 2016. This was followed by a What-if Spec fiction fantasy trilogy "Toltec" series. Toltec Dawn in 2016, Toltec Khan in 2016, and Toltec Noon in 2018.

A member of several writing groups, and the genre reviewer for an on-line magazine, Ron has appeared on genre discussion panels at local cons in Winnipeg and Calgary. When not writing, or wrestling a large cat off of the keyboard, Ron may sometimes be found wishing he was still sailing on Lake Winnipeg.