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Everyone needs to communicate, and to communicate successfully you need to get the words right. Even in this electronic age, the written word – on your website, in your promotional material, in your daily business communication – is still the essential tool for getting your message across.  But while no-one thinks twice about calling in experts in other fields – computer specialists, design gurus, management consultants – the actual words you use, your direct interface with the people you need to reach, are too often left to take care of themselves. Which means that you don’t communicate as clearly, sharply, memorably and convincingly as you could do and need to do. Which means, in turn, that you won’t always get the positive responses you’re looking for.

Ken Ross has worked as a business writer for more than twenty years. He can edit, rewrite and polish your original words or create new ones, so that what you want to say will shine through with maximum immediacy. I’m an expert in my field. If you think you might need his services, then you probably do.

KEN'S BACKGROUND

Freelance creative and business writer, particularly experienced in producing video and audio material; analysing, editing, and rewriting others' work, and expressing complex ideas in accessible language.

Recent Projects:

· Writing and rewording web content for iva.freehelp.co.uk.
· Writing video scripts for Regulatory Affairs Associates (Michigan) to appear on their web-site.
· Assessing and developing film-scripts for the London Script Consultancy

Playwriting:

Plays produced professionally by Royal Court Theatre London, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Granada Television, BBC Radio.

Peggy Ramsey Foundation Playwriting Award 2003

(Literary Agent:  Christopher Oxford, The Tennyson Agency, 10 Cleveland Avenue, London SW20 9EW)

Audio-book producer (mainly for Chivers Audio Books Ltd).

Working with actors such as Juliet Stevenson ('North and South'), Martin Jarvis ('Oliver Twist'), Timothy West (The Flashman Books), Peter Marinker ('Snow Falling on Cedars'), Harriet Walter ('The L-Shaped Room'), Tony Britton (Dick Francis and 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge'), Michael Kitchen ('Wuthering Heights'), Derek Jacobi (Oscar Wilde Short Stories) and Ken Stott, Peter Firth, Sian Phillips, Gwen Watford, Bill Paterson, Kelley Hunter, Stella Gonet, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Julia Sawalha...

Book-Abridgement:

Work includes 'Persuasion', 'A Handful of Dust', 'Treasure Island', 'Diary of a Nobody', 'The Secret Agent' (Penguin Audio); 'A Passage to India', 'Robinson Crusoe', 'The Age of Innocence', 'Tom Jones', 'The Moonstone', 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Turn of the Screw', 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (Orbis Publishing); 'Cobwebs and Cream Teas' (River Audio Books); 'Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources' (Meem Audio). (In general, abridgement entails taking a book of whatever length down to 27,000 words, or approximately 90 pages of double-spaced A4.)

Previous Experience:

2002-Present: Script-reader and script-editor for Writernet and Scriptvault. Assessing play and film scripts, writing detailed reports with suggestions for improvement and, on occasions, editing and rewriting.

2002-2004: Working online for document-doctor.co.uk, proofing and editing various forms of text -- academic, promotional and public service.

1989-2002: Writer and audio-producer for Motivation Cassettes Ltd:

Producing sales-training and promotional materials predominantly on video and audio-cassette for company sales forces: e.g. I.B.M., Volvo, Prudential, Midland Bank, Kodak, Merck Pharmaceuticals etc, etc. Involved liaising with clients, taking briefs, distilling jargon and technical language down to plain English, structuring and writing scripts, and -- in the case of audio -- choosing the voice-actors, running the recording sessions, and directing the performances.

Qualifications:

MA First Class Honours, English and American Literature,
University of Edinburgh.

Contact KEN directly for more information - KennethWRoss@aol.com