"Ken is one of the most engaging people I know. He's enthusiastic, intelligent, and warm-hearted. I've never seen him be pompous in any way, or mean to even the worst knee-jerk in the universe. He treats everyone with kindness and respect.
It's amazing that he can do that because he's been in the word business for longer than I've been alive, and has been there and done that and come back for seconds. Fiction ain't pretty, and he knows it. The road to success is loaded with wrecks, skids, stall-outs, and off-road experiences. Yes, and even roadkill. Ken can't help once the vultures have pecked out the eyes, but up until that point, he's got great ideas for helping writers of all experience levels stay on the road, or find the spare tire once they do hit a ditch, or even find the dang road at all once they've driven their sedan over hills and streams and are standing in a field looking at a cow.
In short, whenever I want to spend time with someone who can help me feel enthusiastic about my writing, I go find Ken."
— Amy Hanson
Author and teacher, Tacoma WA.
"Ken Rand's experience, background and unique delivery makes him eminently qualified to pass along skills and techniques to serious writers. I heartily recommend Ken's The 10% Solution, Self-editing for the Modern Writer."
— John R. Llewellyn
Author, Murder of a Prophet, The Dark Side of Utah Polygamy.
"Ken Rand is an excellent speaker with a flare for getting his point across. His ideas are insightful and useful. I really enjoyed his presentation."
— Rebecca Shelley
Author; publisher/editor of DKA Magazine.
"Thanks again, for your seminar today. It was truly wonderful. I found it very helpful, and I'm sure everyone else did, too. I hope you can use the same materials to do it again, many times, in the future."
— Fred Cavish
Author
"Ken's presentation on idea generation is as practical, inspirational and engrossing as anything I'd ever heard at a convention."
— James Van Pelt
Author and teacher, Grand Junction CO.
"Ken Rand, prolific writer and informative reporter, combines his two literary loves in his presentations to writers groups. After years of professional writing, Ken has developed a terse, tight writing style that owes its success not only to his ability to tell a story, but also to an acute understanding of the right way to view and understand how to make that writing better. Ken is a pleasure and treasure as speaker, mentor and motivator. With an ability to understand what writers need, Ken shares insights, humor, often self-depreciating, yet directed toward what has become a 'great truth about writing' for him. Fortunately for us, his insights are welcome and with a proper application can make others into better writers."
— Beryl Ruleman
Author, Bend OR.
"Thank you, thank you. Great seminar. Hope you can do it again!
— Julia West
author
"I wanted to tell you that the workshop was outstanding and information-packed, and I learned some extremely important points. It was well worth my time to come. I have rarely seen a teacher (especially a man, sorry, but it's true) so organized and well-paced as you were in your presentation."
— Janet Jensen
Author, Logan UT
"Ken Rand not only writes well, he also knows how to talk to people. He loves to share his craft. He makes it everyone's craft by showing how to do it in informative and humorous presentations. Writing is Ken's serious work, but he sure has fun talking about it. He presents ideas and solutions for the modern writer at the speed of sound, and professionals and beginners alike benefit."
— Patrick Swenson
Publisher, Fairwood Press, Auburn WA