We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ronald Joseph Kule. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ronald Joseph below.

Alright, Ronald Joseph thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

When six years old, I knew I wanted to write books. My father encouraged me by editing my essays but never evaluating their quality.

My college education helped me envision a life as a professor of ethnology who would take sabbaticals in different parts of the world and then write and publish books about cultures and people I experienced. However, personal economics necessitated my entry into sales – that’s what I told myself at 19. The truth was, and I didn’t realize this until I was 62, that I was not willing to confront having to starve and go homeless for my art.

While I did well in sales, my success also trapped me: the lifestyle – money, women, travel, etc. It wasn’t until I turned 62 and met a 30-year, award-winning journalist who helped me that I realized I had sold myself short at 19. My first love, writing, was also my best skill!

Despite my age, I immediately stopped selling and began writing books full-time, discovering with my first biography book that people thought my writing merited five-star reviews. That was in 2010. Since then, I’ve made my way for 12 years to date, writing biography and historical fiction books on commission, ghostwriting books, and writing my novels.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

People with little time or skills to write their life stories commission me to write their biography. Some wish to capture more business or to share their knowledge and life lessons with future generations.

My affinities for prospects and for their stories lead me to the writing. Lacking those, I will not take on their book as the result would be less than five-star quality, which is my standard.

Coming to terms with my fees, their payments, and our expectations of each other are a must since I will invest 6-9 months exclusively into their life and book. The book is not considered completed until my client is thrilled with my work and would not change a word.

I’ve written the biographies of a university baseball program, a famous TV chef, a renowned veterinarian/animal chiropractor, an entrepreneur who accomplished an almost impossible athletic feat, and a jazz master’s artists’ manager. When writing for clients, I’m most proud of how their lives or businesses change for the better because of my work.

I’ve written and published fiction in different genres: murder mystery/romance, magical realism, and scifi. Writing my novels, I am most excited about readers’ reviews that reveal they were entertained, had new insights, and could not put my book down!

I stand by my work, letting my words speak for me. I realize that there are major commitments of attention and time made by a reader who will read my book. My intent is to move them emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Deadlines are always less important to me than working on a book until it is worth five stars. People interested in my work should visit https://RonKuleBooks.com, check out my menu offerings there, and buy and read one or more of my books. I’m confident they will never be disappointed.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

In my experience writing for business professionals in various fields, they commonly do not understand how creative work can be hard, especially writing. Many have thought about writing a book but never made the time to write one. And where they did try, they often remark that “… writing is HARD WORK.” Well, it is.

Creative artists in any field have basics – basic data – they must learn and practice to master their craft. While the same applies to businesses and entrepreneurs, the creative must go further since we are responsible for communicating at a quality level that recipients of their work consider (and are moved by) “Art.” Often, those communications embrace concepts and potentialities postulated as future realities; for example, scifi novels. One could rightfully say that creative artists are the dreamers of society.

My 29 years in sales, sales management, and sales training likely honed my already prodigious desire and ability to communicate to a fine, laser-like skill that favorably impinges on readers. Selling and writing share an important thread: Communication. Still, “sales communication” and artistic communication have vast differences; the goal of the former is purchasing and exchanging valuables, and the latter may simply be creating effects.

I consider myself fortunate. It amazes me that I earn a good living and am paid handsomely for doing what I love to do most! It took me many years to realize that I could., but the future looks bright.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

Looking back on my collegiate vision of a life of teaching ethnology, living among different cultures and writing books about them, and what my life became for decades before realizing my purpose as a means of professional accomplishment, the greatest impetus for what changed me was my discovery of the books of author, L. Ron Hubbard. His non-fiction work in the fields of mental health and spiritual awareness expanded my horizon about how much more could be experienced in life. His concepts backed up with practical applications to several areas of my life, gave me the certainty that I could accomplish anything I would set as goals.

My ability to communicate leaped forward with one of the most basic services he offered, a Success Through Communication course. That one-week course tripled my income almost immediately. I could confront selling on straight commission, which set the table for my next several decades of successful living and writing.

Stephen King’s book, On Writing, enabled me to discover my acclaimed writing style, using one datum: active voice rather than passive. That eye-opener gave me great freedom and ease when writing creatively. And any vestige of Writer’s Block disappeared.

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