Ron Ellis has probably one of the most unorthodox backgrounds as far as writer is concerned. Involved in the 1960s Merseybeat phenomenon, he imported records from the US for the Beatles and later was the first North-Western UK mobile DJ. In the 1970s he was promoter for Warner Brothers Records and later, during the punk period, reached No.7 in the New Age charts with his own group. In 1992 the English tabloid The Sun claimed he was the man with most jobs in Britain: librarian, lecturer, salesman, landlord, DJ, actor, broadcaster, photographer, journalist and author. Apart from the current series featuring Johnny Ace, Ellis is also author of a police procedural featuring Inspector Glass, Journal Of A Coffin Dodger (1979) that won two comedy awards and was serialized on BBC radio, and a collection of poems (The Last of the Lake Poets, 1998). He also helped Albert Goldman for Lives of John Lennon (1988) for whom he conducted 19 interviews and took many photographs. Ellis currently lives on Merseyside with his wife and two children and still does broadcasts on local radio as well as DJ gigs.