About the Author

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Jim Kelly’s career in writing began as freelance feature stories and photography for automotive and racing magazines, writing as “JK” Kelly, with credits appearing in Super Stock, Car Craft, and Hot Rod Magazine. Then, realizing he needed a real job, he worked as the PR Director for a top NASCAR team and then became part of the fledgling VP Racing Fuels, where he spent thirty years and lived to write about it in the popular novel FUELIN’ AROUND. When the company was sold in 2015, Kelly jumped at the opportunity to retire early and return to his passion for writing full-time.

With solid advice from James Patterson and working closely with editor Ryan Steck on two book projects, Kelly wrote thrillers that received great reviews and then poured everything he’d learned about writing and broke out with his Formula One/CIA spy thriller DEADLY DRIVER, a finalist in BEST THRILLER BOOK AWARDS. Since then, Kelly’s developed three screenplays, two of which have been requested by Hollywood production companies, and is now working on SWITCHBACK, the sequel to ‘Driver,’ launching in January 2024.