Robert Roseth

Robert M. Roseth, 71, worked at the University of Washington from 1977 to 2014, primarily as director of the news office. He always found life on a major university campus to be an odd mix of serious scholarship, exciting discovery and stultifying bureaucracy. It’s no accident that the word “bureaucracy” is defined as “a way of organizing large numbers of people” and also as a synonym for red tape.

He began dreaming of writing a book about this phenomenon long before he retired from his day job, and like a hidden stone in his shoe it just wouldn’t leave him alone.

Ivy is a Weed is his first novel. Some would insist that as a public relations person, he had been writing fiction for years.

See interviews of the author and some of the book's excellent reviews at: https://robertroseth.com/launch-video-and-interview/