Versatile authors

McKelvey authors are undoubtedly versatile and the subjects of their writings are quite mind-blowing. The range is from comedy to the most serious of academic papers. Here is a mere sampling to whet the appetite.

Blake was based in Rochester,USA, for most of his life. His was the city’s official writer of local history and he also completed a history of urbanisation in the USA.

David has written the history of the Royal Brunei Airlines. Another David has written a number of children’s books including “Bobby the Most Silky” in which a scruffy hen adopts abandoned eggs, and “Commander the Gander” about a hybrid gosling and its adventures.

Douglas Kaine has written poems for pre-schoolers. His “Locus Pocus - Poems to bug you” will delight bug lovers everywhere. It has high ratings from parents. Born in New Hampshire but raised in Texas, Douglas McKelvey was an eager reader from the first grade, an eagerness which led naturally into writing. Some early “traveling about” ended when he had the opportunity to come to Nashville to work with The Art House Foundation. He has since founded his own song publishing company (Songs Only Dogs Can Hear), married, and moved to Williamson County. His projects include songs, children’s books, and Young Readers’ novels. One of his projects features the artwork of Thomas Kincaid.

–Locust Pocus, 2001

–A Child’s Christmas at St. Nicholas Circle, 1999

–The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog, 1996

–Cattail, Fishscale, and Snakeskin, 1994

Kevin was born and raised in Lebanon, Indiana. After his own university studies, he again lives there and teaches Freshman Composition and Professional Writing at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Recent awards include a Moondancer Fellowship (for Nature and Outdoor Writing) at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs.  Recent work appears in Plainsongs and Poems and Plays. The Indiana Arts Commission awarded McKelvey a 2005-06 Individual Artist Grant.

James who designs and sells artistic water faucets, wrote “The Art of Fire: Beginning Glassblowing” which was published in 2006.

“George III and Lord Bute: The Leicester House years” was the focus of a book by James Lee, published in 1973.

Kathy or Kathryn writes on fashion with titles such as ”Fashion source book” and “Fashion Forecasting” which were published in 2006 and 2008. Susan is a quilter with several titles in that area.

G Richard, an Episcopalian clergyman, educator and varsity sports coach produced eight titles on aspects of sport, his interest having started as a fourteen year old when he began collecting sports memorabilia. His titles include: All bat, no glove; a history of the designated hitter; The McPhails - baseball’s first family, and Mexican raiders in the Major League 2006

In Canada, Margaret and Merilyn were published in 1994. “Toronto carved in Stone” is on the architecture of the city.

Steve M. Is a sports lawyer and Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, has written on such matters as “Intellectual Property issues in sponsorship”  There is quite a list at: http://www.isenberg.umass.edu/sportmgt/Faculty/Profiles/Stephen_McKelvey/