Helen Klein Ross Email & Phone Number

My new novel THE LATECOMERS was published on November 6, 2018. It's a multi-generational story of an American family and the Irish immigrant they hire, with whom they share a secret. The story is fiction, but the setting is real, an 1853 governor's mansion in CT that my husband and I bought and restored.

Greater New York City Area

I'm the author of WHAT WAS MINE, a novel published in January 2016 about a childless woman who finds a baby in a shopping cart and raises her as her adopted daughter for 21 years. I'm also the author of MAKING IT: A NOVEL OF MADISON AVENUE, a novel about adland at the turn of the millennium. I come out of the writer's room to talk to agencies, corporations and conferences about writing and about how to creatively communicate via social media.

New York, New York

Brand Fiction Factory is a creative content provider for ad agencies, entertainment producers and consumer product companies. We work with creative directors, brand managers, producers and others seeking to maximize brand value by building narrative and mythology around a brand, delivering it across multiple platforms to enhance consumer engagement.

Independent writer/creative director working with global agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, TBWA/Chiat Day, Young & Rubicam, BBDO, Jordan McGrath and Saatchi & Saatchi to build brands in fashion, beauty, personal care and pharmaceuticals.

I worked with a great team on 360 campaigns to build brandshare for several Dove soap and facecare products.

Days of The NYC Virtual Office! Without the benefit of dedicated walls, I created and executed advertising campaigns to reposition two faltering brands to younger & niche markets: Nivea Skincare and Woolite. Also created print ads and spectacular for Absolut Vodka.

With partner Amy Schottenfels, I founded the first for-profit ad agency created to address the unique needs of nonprofits. Client roster included The Body Shop, Museum of Television and Radio (now The Paley Center for Media), American Civil Liberties Union, New York City Dept. of Health and The Nation magazine. Our work for the Ms. Foundation for Women included partnering with communications strategist Nell Merlino to launch the first Take Our Daughters To Work Day.

Working for industry luminary Ed McCabe, I created print, television and outdoor campaigns for brands in a variety of categories: cameras (Nikon), cars (Volvo), electronics (Sharp), beauty (Revlon), airlines (Continental), fashion (Izod), food (Perdue, Mrs. Paul's)

Clients included Playtex, Duncan Hines and Procter & Gamble

I got my start in the Promotions Department at the San Francisco office, then called FCB/Honig, learning how to coordinate OOH efforts with traditional ad campaigns. Great training in integrated marketing, perfect for a future in social media. But, oh, the thrill of moving into the Creative Department where I had the opportunity to learn from legends like Mike Koelker, CD on Levi's, and Rich Silverstein, before he started his own shop. Transferred to the Park Ave. office in 1979. Meant to stay in NYC for a year. But still here after 30. You know how it is.

Bs, Communications

oh those frigid mornings starting up a car in Ithaca in the days before there was global warming

Mfa, Fiction

Where I learned how to apply copywriting skills to long form.