At our March General Assembly our speaker was Ken Scott, author, ghost writer and book coach. A ghostwriter is a skilled, professional writer hired to write content that is officially credited to someone else. He has written or collaborated on nearly 50 books and reached the Sunday Times top 10 best seller list on several occasions. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Ken is from the borders of Scotland originally but was brought up in Newcastle. His career was in finance but at the age of 43 he decided to leave the rat race and start a new career. Up until then he had been an avid reader, having read some 2-3000 books, and written a book himself, and found it came easy to him to write.
So, he and his wife took the plunge, sold up and came to Spain to write, not only to write for himself but to be a ghost writer where people pay you to write a book for them.
His first book, ¨Race against me¨, was about an Olympic sprinter, Dwain Chambers, whose biography he wrote following his testing positive for the use of a performance enhancing drug and subsequent sports ban. The book was entered for Sports biography of the year.
His second book was his first best seller entitled ¨Do the birds still sing in hell?¨, a moving love story about a Prisoner of War in WW11, and made the Sunday Times Top 10.
He ghost wrote ¨The Argentine Affair¨, a true story about a major drug smuggling operation and drug dealer, for a lady who had married an Argentinian, not knowing he was a drug dealer, and the price she paid.
Ken explained he looks for great stories that are potential best sellers and it’s about bringing other people’s stories to the marketplace.
He also writes fiction and has written his own books under his name and has worked on screen plays.
Ken was a very charismatic and engaging speaker and the audience was captivated by his talk. Many of us were excited to buy several of his books at the end and we look forward to enjoying them.
A full list of Ken’s books can be found on his website www.kenscottbooks.com