A Conversation with Ross King and Shari Low, Authors of THE RISE! (plus a giveaway!)

Thanks so much for coming by today, Ross and Shari! What 5 things should readers know about you?

Shari:

1. We are a writing duo, who have known each other for over 30 years, since long before we had the lives we have now.
2. We both grew up in Glasgow, Scotland in the 80s, and met when we were in our early twenties. We’ve been friends ever since.
3. Ross moved to LA not long after that, and became a multi-Emmy winning presenter, actor, writer and performer, while I went on to have a twenty-two-year career as a writer, with over 30 novels published worldwide.
4. Those young people who met at the start of our careers would be astonished (and delighted!) at how things have turned out. We still find it pretty hard to believe it ourselves!
5. We were having coffee in Glasgow one afternoon while Ross was home visiting family and got chatting about the kind of book we could write together. By the end of that day, we had the characters, the storylines, and the whole book mapped out. The end version turned out exactly as we imagined it that day.

I love when things work out like that!

Where did the inspiration for your book come from?

Ross: The storylines came from a combination of our experiences, observations, and imagination. Alongside acting and writing, I’ve worked in LA as a celebrity reporter for British television for decades and have interviewed just about every big-name star, so it’s fair to say I’ve seen the good, bad, brilliant and ugly of the entertainment industry first hand. Shari is still based in Scotland, where she writes brilliant, best-selling novels. In the book, the three characters were childhood friends in Glasgow, who go on to be major Hollywood stars in their own fields: Zander is an A-list actor, Davie produces hit reality shows, and Mirren is a hugely successful writer. The Rise allowed us to bring our two worlds together and create a novel that is purely fiction, but comes with a level of authenticity and the kind of details that only someone who has insider knowledge of the characters’ lives would know.

I love it!

What are you working on right now? What can readers look for from you in the next year?

Shari: The Rise is the first book in a trilogy, and will be followed in January 2023 by the sequel, The Catch. Right now, we’re working on the third book in the series, The Fall, which will be out in May 2023.

Sounds great!

What are you currently reading, and what are your thoughts about it so far?

Ross: When we’re in the close-to-deadline stage of writing, 100% of our focus is on our work, so reading for pleasure is temporarily suspended. As soon as the final draft is submitted, we’ll start tackling our towering To Be Read piles.

Perfectly understandable! Your reward for finishing can be reading something fun. I approve!

If you had to “sell” your book in a single Tweet, what would you say?

We came up with this answer together!

An edgy sexy thriller about ambition, friendship, betrayal, malice, that spans decades, crosses oceans & rises from the streets to the stars.

Perfect! Thanks so much for stopping by today, you two!

About the authors:

Ross King and Shari Low is a writing partnership forged in a friendship of over 30 years. Los Angeles-based Ross King is a four-time News Emmy award-winning TV and radio host, actor, producer, writer and performer, and is currently the Hollywood correspondent for ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Shar Lowi is the bestselling writer of nearly thirty novels including My One Month Marriage and One Summer Sunrise and she lives in Glasgow. They are publishing their Hollywood thriller trilogy with Boldwood.

The Rise
by Ross King & Shari Low
Publication date: September 13th 2022
Genres: Adult, Romance, Thriller

When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us…
Their rise was meteoric.

Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.
But on one Hollywood night in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.
That night was the beginning of their careers. But it was also the end of their friendship.

Over the next twenty years, Mirren McLean would become one of the most powerful writers in the movie industry.
Zander Leith would break box-office records as cinema’s most in-demand action hero.
And Davie Johnson would rake in millions as producer of some of the biggest shows on TV.

For two decades they didn’t speak, driven apart by a horrific secret.
Until now…
Their past is coming back to bite them, and they have to decide whether to run, hide, or fight.
Because when you rise to the top, there’s always someone who wants to see you fall.

An exciting new glam thriller for the fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Liane Moriarty and Jo Spain

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61346445-the-rise

Purchase:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wXhl2K
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-rise-shari-low/1141681009?ean=9781804267684
iBooks: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-rise/id6443079995
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-rise-27

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