Ross was reliably informed by his dad that he was found under a cabbage leaf in 1963 and hasn't seen any reason to doubt that yet. He started writing at a young age with the highlight of those early years being asked (well forced actually) to read one of his stories about ants to some of the other classes at his primary school. To this day he still cringes at the memory of that epic where he 'died in the ant wars - a hero of the ants'. As he grew older, sport and unsuccessfully chasing women were a higher priority and the writing stopped. He finally started writing again several years ago, supplying copy to a local computing journal. After one of his articles was reproduced in a similar journal in the USA, he promptly got a swelled head and produced business cards announcing him to be a Freelance Writer. Fortunately some real sales finally did eventuate although the crappy business cards had long since been thrown out. Fiction, and particularly speculative fiction then called. Unfortunately for Ross, so far his non-fiction writing is still doing much better than the fiction. He has one short story competition win, although that was not speculative fiction, but it was published in a national magazine that is devoured by fellow cricket tragics. However the regular rejections are becoming more positive so he thinks he must be slowly improving. At a Master Class with Jack Dann back in 2003, Jack told Ross 'Guy - you have a lot of work to do, but it's there.' Ross is still working at it although he doesn't think that he has actually worked out what 'it' is as yet. At the moment he has a number of stories in circulation that haven't been rejected yet so hope springs eternal.