Author's Biography

[So here's what I've cobbled together as a Draft for my Author's Bio. To the extent you'd care to critique and comment, I'd be appreciative!]

Richard Kim Millsap

Author’s Biography

Richard Kim Millsap is alive and well in Colorado.

Kim was a public school educator in Colorado Springs for 28 years, serving principally as a band director, general music teacher and choral conductor for elementary and middle-school students. After retirement, he invested an additional seven-plus years serving the particular patrons of Glen Eyrie, a private Christian conference center owned by The Navigators. Kim currently works in a volunteer capacity as content editor and sometime contributor for the newsletter and web-site of Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Kim holds a M.M. in Music History and Literature from Colorado State University and a B.A. in Music Education from Arkansas Tech University. Additional formal coursework includes The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as well as numerous workshops, extensions and conferences across the United States.

Kim somehow found time as an educational and business writer and editor, creating the various student handbooks and instructional content across the years. At Glen Eyrie, Kim solidified and co-authored the standard operating procedures for Guest Services as well as serving as principal administrator for social media.

Also whilst at Glen Eyrie, Kim became especially intrigues by the life of Civil War officer William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. With strong tie-ins to his additional interests in western living and literature, firearms and ballistics, camp-style cuisine, brass instruments, various historical locales came the seminal ideas for Cheyenne Swirling.

As a former band and choral director, Kim has presented his students in hundreds of concerts and addressed audiences comprised variously of students, parents and conference attendees. Having also presented formally in Colorado and Ontario, he is quite confident and adept as a public speaker. If Kim has any particular claim to fame otherwise, it is as a founding member of the Academy District Twenty classic rock group, Mid-Life Crisis.

Kim’s book and film reviews may be found on Amazon (writing as Russell de Ville) and Goodreads. See his blog at lucidnoodle.blogspot.com. He is also insanely active on Facebook. Cheyenne Swirling is the author’s first novel.