For media interview requests, email rick@ricktreon.com
Literary awards and nominations
- 2022 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence in Thrillers (Divided States)
- 2022 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence finalist, Suspense category (Let the Guilty Pay)
- 2022 Silver Falchion Award finalist, Best Thriller category (Divided States)
- 2021 Silver Falchion Award finalist, Best Suspense category (Let the Guilty Pay)
- 2021 Best Thriller Book Awards finalist, Best Political Thriller (Divided States)
- 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest finalist, thriller/action-adventure category (Let the Guilty Pay)
- 2019 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence in Suspense (Deep Background)
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Downloadable book cover photos
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The basics
- Full name: Richard Derias Treon IV
- Age: 36
- Born in: Mesa, Arizona
- Hometown: Stinnett, Texas
- Lives in: Amarillo, Texas
Affiliations
- Texas High Plains Writers (Past-president, currently treasurer)
- International Thriller Writers (Critique group facilitator)
- Sisters in Crime
- Writers’ League of Texas
- The Crime Writers’ Association
Did you know?
- To research his Bartholomew Beck series (Let the Guilty Pay and The Price of Silence), Rick worked as a welder’s helper on a pipeline crew in Oklahoma and Texas for eight months in 2018 and 2019
- As a child living in Maine, Rick won the Canadian indoor archery national championship
- Rick shot a hole-in-one at the Phillips Municipal Golf Course
- Rick’s reporting has been picked up by national outlets such as The Today Show (NBC) and Sports Illustrated
Newspapers
- Intern and reporter for Fort Worth Star-Telegram (2008-2009)
- Reporter and Online Editor for Amarillo Globe-News (2009-2014)
- City Editor and Managing Editor of Amarillo Globe-News (2017-2018)
- Managing Editor of The Kerrville Daily Times (2018)
Other journalism contributions
- Columns and essays featured in Amarillo Magazine and syndicated by Gannett Media
- The Associated Press
- Big If True (nonprofit news organization)
- Dallas Morning News
- ESPN
College
- Earned Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin (2004-2008)
- Served as reporter and editor for UT’s student newspaper, The Daily Texan (2004-2008)