Published Authors I to K
Below is a listing of all the Northeast Florida published authors we can find or have been told about with the last names beginning with the letters I to K. If you are a published Northeast Florida author and your name isn’t listed please use our Contact Us form and let us know. We would be happy to add you.
Sumeka Y. Jackson (Self-Help)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sumeka.WAI
Sumeka Y. Jackson is a Jacksonville self-help author and artist manager whose 2016 book, Shallow Waters Healing Deep Wounds, follows an ordinary young woman’s transformation through the power of forgiveness after a difficult past. Beyond her writing, she has worked in the local music industry as an artist manager, bringing the same encouraging, mentorship-minded energy to the performers she represents that animates her book’s message of healing and moving forward.
Shallow Waters Healing Deep Wounds – Sept 2016
Tracy Jackson (Non-Fiction/Christian Fiction/Children’s)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jacksonbill.tracy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tralove40/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jetvacations
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572876304942
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tracy-Jackson/author/B0DKDL23JN
Purchase Locally: https://www.supportblkgnv.com/united-states/alachua/jackson%E2%80%99s-products
Tracy Jackson is a Gainesville author, entrepreneur, and military wife whose path to publishing began decades ago, scribbling on a computer that still saved to floppy disks, and resumed in earnest after years of putting writing aside to raise a family. Her two-volume series This Love: Love that Covers a Multitude of Sins draws on personal experience to explore betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption through faith-rooted storytelling, while her children’s book That’s Ok, God Made Me This Way offers young readers facing bullying or teasing an encouraging message about embracing their own individuality. She describes her mission as helping readers understand that the past does not have to define the future.
This Love: Love that covers a Multitude of Sins, Part 1 – 2024
This Love: Love that covers a Multitude of Sins, Part 2 – 2025
That’s Ok – God Made Me This Way – 2024
That’s Ok – God Made Me This Way – Coloring Book – 2025
William A. “Bill” Keefe (Science Fiction)
St. Augustine, FL — passed away October 18, 2019
St. Johns County
Smashwords Profile: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/williamakeefe
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.keefe.1426
William A. “Bill” Keefe was a St. Augustine science fiction author and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel whose path to fiction wound through a varied career as a VMI-trained artillery officer, a master instructor at the Aberdeen Ordnance School, and later a computer systems engineer for employers including Bank of America’s Jacksonville lending division. His debut novel, PV-11: Et Sequitur, follows a fighter pilot’s command of a stealth patrol vessel and explores the ethics of artificial intelligence through the ship’s increasingly self-aware automated officer. Keefe passed away on October 18, 2019, at age 81.
PV-11: ET SEQUITUR – Oct 2013
The Infidels’ Revenge – Dec 2015
Pierce Kelley (Fiction/Non-Fiction/Screenplays)
Ft. White, FL
Columbia County
Website: http://piercekelley.com
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Pierce-Kelley/e/B001K8SZSA
Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pierce.kelley.1
Pierce Kelley is a Fort White author and retired trial attorney whose writing career began almost by accident, when a broken ankle from a softball game in 1989 gave him time to write his first book, a tennis coaching guide that became a national resource for parents of young players. A Tulane and George Washington University law graduate, he spent over three decades practicing civil law in Florida, including more than a hundred jury trials and arguments before the Florida Supreme Court, while teaching as a paralegal studies adjunct for over twenty-five years. He turned to fiction in 2001 with A Very Fine Line and has published more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction since, ranging from courtroom drama to memoirs of his pilgrimages along the Camino de Santiago and the Jesus Trail in Israel. He served as president of the Youth Tennis Foundation of Florida from 1987 to 2007.
A Parent’s Guide to Coaching Tennis – Apr 1995
Civil Litigation: A Case Study – Jan 2001
Introducing Children to the Game of Tennis – May 2002
Fistfight at the L and M Saloon: A Novel – Mar 2006
A Very Fine Line – Aug 2006
A Plenary Indulgence – Dec 2006
Pieces to the Puzzle: A Collection of Short Stories – Feb 2007
BOCAS del TORO: A Novel – Jun 2007
A Tinker’s Damn! – Mar 2008
Asleep at the Wheel – Dec 2008
A Foreseeable Risk – Apr 2009
Kennedy Homes: An American Tragedy – May 2009
Thousand Yard Stare – May 2010
Father, I Must Go – Jan 2011
Roxy Blues: A Novel – Jan 2012
A Deadly Legacy – Dec 2012
To Valhalla – Apr 2015
Massacre at Sirte – Jul 2016
Hunted – May 2017
Hiding in America – Dec 2017
Pilgrimage: A Journey of Self-Discovery on El Camino de Santiago – Aug 2018
The Jesus Trail: Following in the Footsteps of Christ – June 2019
Anima: A Search for Inner Self – Aug 2022
Rivers That Run Through Us: A Collection of Short Stories – Nov 2022
Vickie King (Western Romance/Historical Romance)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website/Blog: http://vickielking.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorVickieKing/
Email: VLWKing@aol.com
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Vickie-King/e/B00FAZ2DQE
Vickie King is a Jacksonville romance author who moved to Florida from a small West Virginia town in 1994, a place she still draws on as the model for the fictional Corrigan setting of her Braddocks series. A past president of Ancient City Romance Authors and member of Romance Writers of America, she has published short fiction in Woman’s World Magazine in addition to her novels. Her contemporary Braddocks series follows the extended Braddock family through small-town second-chance romances, while her Blackwood Brothers series, published through Salt Run Publishing, moves into historical western romance set in 1850s Missouri.
The Braddocks
Carly’s Rule (Book 1) – Sept 2013
Dusty’s Fate (Book 2) – May 2014 – OUT OF PRINT
Landon’s Crossing (Book 3) – not yet published
Trevor’s Hope (Book 4) – not yet published
Blackwood Brothers
Ethan’s Heart – Dec 2016
Escorting Darby Bloom – not yet published
Rainy Kirkland (Historical Romance/Mystery)
Elkton, FL
St. Johns County
Website: https://rainykirkland.net/
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Rainy-Kirkland/e/B003ZO6LHO
Rainy Kirkland is a national award-winning author who built her early career on historical romance before returning to her first literary love, mystery, after settling in St. Augustine. A Peace Corps veteran and former elementary school teacher in New Jersey, she found the inspiration for her Old City Mysteries series at the real Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, reimagined in her books as the Wakefield Boarding House where a young widow is repeatedly drawn into solving local crimes. Her earlier Bewitching Kisses and Florida Heat series established her as a Zebra Heartfire and National Reader’s Choice Award-winning romance novelist before the genre shift.
Bewitching Kisses Series
Bewitching Kisses (Book 1) – 2012 – Out of Print
Silver Flames (Book 2) – 2012 – Out of Print
Falcon’s Curse (Book 3) – 2012 – Out of Print
Florida Heat Series
Florida Heat (Book 1) – 2012 – Out of Print
Deadly Revenge (Book 2) – 2014 – Out of Print
Street Stalker (Book 3) – 2015 – Out of Print
Old City Mysteries
Deadly Deception – 2017
Tragic Treasure – 2018
Mary Sue Koeppel (Short Stories/Poetry/Non-Fiction)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Editor/Writing Website: http://www.writecorner.com/koeppel.asp
Mary Sue Koeppel is a Gainesville poet, editor, and longtime literary community builder who served as editor of Kalliope, a Journal of Women’s Literature & Art, from 1988 to 2005, and now co-edits Writecorner Press. Her honors include the Esmee Bradbury National Poetry Award, the Frances Buck Sherman Award for her editing work on Kalliope, and the State of Florida’s Red Schoolhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching, along with recognition as a Florida Humanities Council Scholar. She continues to teach summer poetry workshops at the University of Wisconsin School of the Arts in Rhinelander.
Writing: Resources for Conferencing and Collaboration/Instructor’s Edition – Jan 1989 – Out of Print
Write Your Life: The Memory Catcher – 2000 – Out of Print
In the Library of Silences, Poems of Loss – 2001
Writing Strategies Plus Collaboration, 4th Edition – 2005 – Out of Print
Between the Bones – March 2005
[Last updated 06/25/2026]
