MEET ED KELLNER…

 

I have been writing all my life for different magazines, newspapers and I sponsored my own column: “Disability and You: Everything you were afraid to ask…”  I had a neat interview with Gary Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit for Skyline Magazine.

I attended a feminist writing group in Cambridge, MA, with my mother, Bella Kellner, and at the first class, the instructor asked me why I was in the class.  I said because I wanted to learn how to write.  Well, after the class finished, a few of us started a writing group and that was where Sidney the Uncommon Squirrel was born.

Now I enjoy biweekly meetings with the Carolina Forest Author’s Club online due to Covid-19 and in the future at the Carolina Blvd. Library.  I receive a lot of support from the members and we share each other’s writings and critique with love.

I am currently writing a fictional adaptation of a murder and trial of an Attorney General in Chicago in 1995.  Funny story.  I called the Attorney General’s office in Chicago for directions to the local subway station from their office.  I told the receptionist that I was writing a book about the murder of the Attorney General.  Well, a week later, I got back home after playing golf (first time in 50 years), and my wife Alice told me Amy Prock, the Myrtle Beach Police Chief came to my house asking, “If I was planning to murder the Attorney General of Chicago.”  I got home to this news and then received a call from an investigator for the Attorney General of Chicago, asking if I was planning to murder the Attorney General.  I explained I was writing a book about that and I was no longer on the Most Wanted List.

The name of this book is Twist of Fate:  No Turning Back.

I am married to my wonderful wife, Alice.  I have four children and I have fifteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  We also have two granddogs: Dylan and Toby.

 

Works by Ed Kellner

 

Sidney was bored in New Hampshire. When a friend told him that Boston Common was a neat place to go, Sidney jumped on a truck and ended up in the Haymarket Square area of Boston.

There Sidney followed the red line of the Freedom Trail to Boston Common and settled in an English Elm right in front of the State House. There in the Common he made lots of new friends.

But there are dangers in the city. From subways to snakes, Sidney’s new home is quite an adventure!