Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing over fifty years and began with book reviews, letters articles, and anything I could get published. Then in the 1980s started writing children’s books and had about 28 published. I wrote a few non-fiction books before turning my attention to novels; I’ve published about 8 novels, probably my most successful one has been A Cross of Crocuses, but others have done reasonably well too.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Most recent novel is BODIES, the last in a trilogy of Romantic/Erotic suspense stories that began with WASTED PAIN and had PROTECTION: sex, revenge & romance in the middle. My inspiration, as you call it, was the desire to try my hand as writing American English; after three novels I actually prefer writing in American lingo.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Make it up as you go along, that way you’re as interested as the reader because you don’t know what’s going to happen. I find this method, after all these years of writing, gives me the most excitement.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Chiefly 19th Century novels by English and French writers, as well as poetry from the last three centuries.
What are you working on now?
A novel loosely entitled CRY OF THE SINGLE about two folks in their late fifties who are attempting to rekindle a relationship after a thirty years separation.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The obvious method is coughing up money, then more money, and if you’re lucky you get some of it back in royalties. This does work, but you need to persevere.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is about massive amounts of thinking and a great deal of commitment. If you’re not prepared for these tasks, choose another occupation.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When Percy Shelley wrote a letter to his friend Hogg, who was in York at the time. In a letter he wrote, ‘Nothing should shake a truly great spirit which is not sufficiently mighty to destroy it.’ I live by this rule.
What are you reading now?
Haven’t time to read. As soon as I finish writing one novel, I start another.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Turn out more books, and then more books. Sooner or later someone’s going to think, ‘Hey, that’s one hell of a good book.’
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A very big book, and I’d hide a gorgeous gal inside it.
Author Websites and Profiles
Ken Ross Website
Ken Ross Amazon Profile
Ken Ross’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profil