Novelist • Screenwriter • Playwright • Phoenix, AZ

Ron Peer

"If Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich had a desert-dwelling love child..."

Award-winning screenwriter turned novelist. Ron's scripts have been produced by New Regency, starred Oscar-winning actors, and screened in theaters from Hollywood to Hamburg. Now he's bringing the same wit and storytelling craft to fiction — starting with the sun-scorched streets of Pickensburg, Arizona.

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BOOK 2 IN THE SERIES COMING SOON

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Kairos Pro PrizeMovieguide Awards, 2017

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New Regency ProductionGoodbye, Lover (1999)

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3 Oscar Winnersin his produced films

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50+ Plays ProducedPhoenix & internationally

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Austin Film FestivalSemi-Finalist

About Ron

A Phoenix storyteller
in every medium

A Phoenix native, Ron attended Arizona State University earning degrees in Business and English. His Hollywood breakthrough came when New Regency produced his Austin Film Festival semi-finalist script Goodbye, Lover, directed by two-time Oscar nominee Roland Joffé and starring Patricia Arquette and Ellen DeGeneres.

His subsequent screenplays brought Academy Award winner Maximilian Schell and Christoph Waltz to the screen, and he won the prestigious Kairos Pro Prize at the 2017 Movieguide Awards. As a playwright, he's seen over fifty productions across the U.S. and internationally.

Now focused on fiction, Ron brings the same wit, character depth, and plotting craft to novels — most recently launching the Pickensburg Mystery Series with Poison in Pickensburg, a desert noir comedy that readers are calling their new favorite cozy mystery.

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Recent & Notable Works

Mystery Series — Book 1

Poison in Pickensburg

A reluctant ex-detective, a poisoned mayor, and the most eccentric suspect list in Arizona history. Desert noir at its funniest.

Holiday Novel

O Little Town of Donuts

A stranger crashes into a tractor saving a child and accidentally becomes the Christmas miracle a small Texas town didn't know it needed.

Nonfiction

The Gift of Love