Reality is theft

James Ross

biography

Former barman, taxi-driver, booze fighter.
Spent three years as a chef on the Japanese whaling ship Kumiko .
20 months (1998/99) in the ‘ El Huevo ' penitentiary, Bolivia , after a brawl.
Left-handed.
Eyes the colour of pond-scum.

Why Write?

To make the world right again.

Literary Influences

None.

Literary Ambitions

None.

My Operating System

Invent the truth.
Scrape my ego from the page.
Make it readable .

I Love...

Reading
Red Wine
Sex

I Hate…

Nothing

I Want…

Less.

Quotes...

“There are only three names on my shit-list.”
‘All stories are about redemption, or the abyss'

James Ross is a member of The Utopian Collective