​RONNIE L RICHARDS
'killer on the loose' Series
'killer on the loose' Synopsis
Franklin Rogers is a Senior at Kingfisher High School when the series begins. He has an insatiable yearning to kill. After Graduation, he focuses his need to kill as a way to also exact revenge on his middle school bully. Short, thin, nerdy looking Franklin is not anyone's idea of a serial killer. Couple that with the fact that his brother is Kingfisher County Deputy Sheriff Bernard Rogers which makes him invisible as a suspect for the ever growing number of murders in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. Set in a small, rural county in central Oklahoma in the mid 1970s, the normally peaceful small communities have an increasing population at the local cemeteries. Become a part of the audience on the sidelines waiting to see who Franklin kills next. Will he get caught. I am not sure. I, like you, am waiting to see what happens next.
The Story behind the Series book covers
When I designed the Cover for each of the three books in the series, I wanted it to represent rural Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. The County back in the mid 1970's was sparsely populated. Most of the County's residents lived in the small towns within the County, with Kingfisher being the largest having just under 4,000 residents.
Since this is a series about a serial killer, I wanted the Cover to also represent death for those in the county.
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My wife Michelle and I drove around Kingfisher County one afternoon looking for Kingfisher County signs. In doing so, we ran across a Dead End sign sitting at the entrance to a dirt road. This was a perfect sign for representing death in the County.
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The main picture in the Covers is a County Line sign on State Highway 74F headed south off State Highway 33 going into Cashion, Oklahoma. I believe the Dead End sign was taken on the County line road just a little east of 4-Corners intersection where Logan, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher counties meet.
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I photoshopped the Dead End sign onto the County Line sign. The steel post I placed it on in the Cover picture is the original County Line sign post. The County Line sign was a two post sign with nothing on the left post opposite the Kingfisher County sign. The first two pictures of signs below are the original pictures. The third is the photoshopped picture with the added Dead End sign. Finally, I adjusted the brightness, contrast, and saturation to get the desired result. The finished covers (the covers on top of this page), with the lettering were created with KDP's Cover Maker. I chose to keep the cover picture the same across the series of books with only the back cover, spine, and color band on the front changing from book to book.
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