K. Velk

"Scratch a lawyer and you will find a novelist" (and a lawyer who needs a bandage).

I am paraphrasing someone famous. Someone French, I think, though I couldn't find the source just now... Anyway, that's me. A forty-something lawyer who finally got a part-time lawyer gig six years ago and promptly started writing the book I had always felt I would someday write. (Up,Back,and Away). It's a time-travel adventure story about a cosseted 15-year-old boy from suburban Dallas who is sent back in time (on a vintage English three-speed) to 1928 and across the sea to England. There, he is to retrieve a girl with a gift who was born at the wrong time, and to uncover a secret that was not meant to be, ad then return home with them both. The book is a bit of throwback as it does not feature sex (maybe a bit of sexual tension) violence (well, one street brawl) or monsters.

I have collected children's story books for years and my favorites are those from the 1920s and '30s that have great art and all kinds of poems and stories of the sort that children today never see.

I try to write every day and while I work on the next magnum opus, I also get waylaid by periodic outbursts of the desire to write something shorter and quicker. I have collected some of those writings into a sampler called the Tiny Confinements Miscellany. That little volume is a collection of essays, humor, and a couple of short stories if you're not looking for a big commitment.