"after weeks of futile waiting, he [Denton] decided British officials were concealing the facts and he began to accept Australian claims that Morant had been sacrificed as a colonial subject". In despair, Denton returned to Australia, and began to work on a screenplay about Morant. No-one displayed any interest of any kind in developing Denton's proposed screenplay. However, the Sydney publisher, Angus & Robertson, suggested that some of his artistic effort might be rescued if he was able to re-work his screenplay into a novel. Denton substantially re-worked his screenplay into the book that was published in 1973. In the 1984 interview, Denton was most emphatic that (a) he himself, (b) his earlier draft screenplay, and (c) his later novel "[were] not involved with the film [of Beresford in any way]". Later work After Ross had finished with his work as an advisor to the scriptwriters for the film Breaker Morant, his services were commissioned on numerous occasions by interested parties in Australia and the United States to write film treatments on their behalf; however, quite a few of these otherwise promising potential projects did not proceed due to the effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 on the film industry and its backers. He wrote several scripts for episodes of the Australian television shows Carson's Law, and Rafferty's Rules. He has also fully developed several other film scripts that have been purchased, but have not yet begun production; and, also, one of his fully developed film scripts (working title Sunburnt Heroes) is in pre-production. He has also mentored several promising emerging writers, and has completed a manual for writers that is soon to be published. He has completed a novel, a spy thriller, To Skin a Cat, which has been placed with a publisher; and as well, has returned to the stage, writing an entirely new play (working title L, V AND P), concerning Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Peter Finch. For a number of years he was the South Australian representative of the Australian Writers' Guild Works Drama The Right Man (1977); Sheridan Theatre, North Adelaide, 1977. Don't Piddle Against the Wind, Mate (1977); Jane Street Theatre, Randwick, July 1977; directed by John Tasker.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iv5jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2870%2C6245391 Amusements, Jane St. Theatre, Don't Piddle Against the Wind, Mate, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Wednesday, 20 July 1977, p.14.)]</ref> Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts (1978); Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, January 1978; directed by