Ron Schultz
Co-author of Metal Viper in the Dangerous Places series with Sarah Lovett. Author of All There is to Know and the Dorje Shapiro Thriller series, The Garuda’s Cry and Hungry Ghost. These books will be published soon!
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Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, meditation, emergence, science, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress.
BOOKS
METAL VIPER
A poet-baker and his 12 year old son, Vika, have been arrested by Myanmar’s brutal Tatmadaw regime for their crime of “seditious poetry”—writing poetry for peace. Now, it is up to Kae Zhang and her Article 5 team to save the young poet, Vika.
ALL THERE IS TO KNOW
A provocative literary novel that follows artist and seeker Jake Elliot as he navigates the collision of spirituality, art, politics, love, and authoritarianism in modern America.
THE GARUDA’S CRY
Elliot Shapiro walked away from NSA where he had spent years applying what he called his nearly psychic ability as a synthesizer. It was an often uncanny capacity to assemble disparate bits of information and come up with an accurate vision of what was about to happen.
HUNGRY GHOST
When an invaluable Ming Dynasty painting from the ancient Water/Land Ritual is stolen from Tibet House, a locus for Santa Fe’s large Tibetan population, Elliot Shapiro and Elena Ranero are brought in to investigate the disappearance.
RECENT ESSAYS
Renegade Writers Podcast
The Renegade Writers Podcast, hosted by award winning and Distinguished Authors Ron Schultz and Sarah Lovett, is a podcast about and for fearless writers willing to challenge the status quo. These inspiring and lively interviews feature writers who are not simply...
The Poetry of Metal Viper
Poetry plays a crucial role in Metal Viper. The poems of Dampa, a baker struggling to find meaning after the 2021 coup in Myanmar, are taped to the wall in front of the display cases of his bakery, for anyone to read. The fresh baked goods going out the door are...
Metal Viper Makes Itself Known
They do their work in some of the most dangerous places on earth. Their stories are filled and fraught with confronting the black holes in our societies, while serving the needs of those teetering on the brink of falling into those voids. My calling was not to be one...
Influencing Algorithms
Innovation comes from the root for “new” and “now,” which is definitely not what we think of when we create more of the same. My intention with this brief essay is to look at how we dress up the new and now so it doesn’t freak out the seemingly “tried and true.” I...
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