Ron Drummond
Ronald N. Drummond is a writer, editor, and independent scholar.
Career
Writer
Drummond is the author of The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros; The Frequency of Liberation, a critical fiction about the novels of Steve Erickson; Ducré in Euphonia: Ideal and Influence in Berlioz; Broken Seashells, an essay/meditation on ancestral memory and the music of Jethro Tull; the introductory essays for the 8-volume edition in score and parts of The Vienna String Quartets of Anton Reicha. Other publications include the short story, "Troll", published in Black Clock, and a performance essay on the Tokyo String Quartet.Editor
As an editor, Drummond worked with Samuel R. Delany on the essay collections The Straits of Messina, Longer Views, the novel They Fly at Çiron, collection Atlantis: Three Tales, a novel-in-progress, Shoat Rumblin, and Dark Reflections. He was the publisher of Çiron and Atlantis. He is a proofreader and editorial redactor of Delany's most famous novel, Dhalgren. Delany wrote, "Ron's editorial acumen is the highest I have encountered in a professional writing career of more than thirty years." In March 2006, Drummond gave a talk on "Editing Samuel R. Delany" at an international academic conference on Delany's life and work held at SUNY Buffalo.Drummond also worked with novelist John Crowley, publishing Crowley's short story collection Antiquities, editing the novels Dæmonomania and Endless Things, and the electronic versions of Ægypt and Love & Sleep. He sold subscriptions for a deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Crowley's 1981 novel Little, Big, slated for publication in 2007, and finally published in October 2022.