Ros Haywood is the author of the Rainbow Ruby series. This series follows Ruby Halliday and her friend, Scarlett Jones. The books involve quests for a blue ruby, black pearls, a scarlet diamond, a purple opal, and a green garnet, travelling through England, Africa, Australia, South America and time, and meeting magic along the way.
Ros Haywood is a retired librarian, living in the Southwest of England. She enjoys reading, reading, and more reading, and is just about to start working on Indigo Pearl (the seventh book in the Gemstone Girls series).
She is a genealogy and family history enthusiast, writing a blog with currently over 114,000 hits, running seven one-name studies, acting as an Online Parish Clerk, plus conducting a one-place study.
Reading and Studying
An old reel-to-reel tape has Ros, age 4, reading Peter Rabbit aloud. She has been reading ever since (she has eclectic tastes!) and received an Open University BA degree, studying creative writing and children's literature.
Writing
She regularly takes part in the madness which is NaNoWriMo (writing a novel in a month), and started by drafting Star Trek novels Synchronicity and Guardian Angel.
Blue Ruby Press
Blue Ruby Press is Ros Haywood's publishing imprint name. She is currently converting all her books to this imprint, and giving them new covers, too!
Contact Her Here
Her personal website is at
Rosweb
Her genealogy blog is at
GenWestUK
Find her on Facebook
Or Google+
And on Twitter at
@RosHaywood
Follow her on Goodreads
And visit her page on the Independent Author Network (IAN)
