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Kevin Lynn Helmick, American fiction writer, Chicago Il Titles include The Lost Creek Journal, Clovis Point, Sebastian Cross.
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Kevin lynn Helmick began writing short stories and poetry in his early teens and gained small successes and notoriety throughout the eighties and early nineties. After a over decade long departure from any writing Helmick returned to the keyboard and produced a collection of selected poems and writings in 2009 and followed up with two novels in 2010.
His influances range from classic literature greats like Hemingway and Faulkner, to more contempory writer like Cormac McCarthy and Larry Mcmurtry.
He's currenty at work on his third novel expected to be completed spring, 2011.
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Birth Place
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Fort Madison, IA United States
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Current novel, Sebastian Cross, published Jan 1st. is an epic literary adventure that examines the effects artistic creation on a culture and an artist.
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Sebastian Cross
An epic adventure that follows a twenty year relationship between of Chicago literary agent and a mysterious, brilliant, thrill seeking novelist who produces a masterpiece that changes the world. Sebastian Cross takes inside look at the process of creativity, fame and the rise and fall of an American icon.
Clovis Point
Set in Fallon NV, 1978,19 year old Ryan Sheppard, a mentaly unstable son of dead rodeo legend comes across an enchanted artifact on reservation land that soon thrust his life on a course of violence and self preservation. Shep and his girl Shelly set out on blood soaked adventure, desperate to escape for a better life. But the truth catches up in a small northern California town.
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