Married couple have books on the market

Staff report

A husband and wife, both writers, have their books on the Amazon Best Sellers’ List on Kindle. Alan T. McKean’s time-travel adventure is “The Scent of Time” and Stephanie Parker McKean’s Christian mystery-romance-suspense is “Bridge to Nowhere.”

Scottish-born Alan’s publishing company is Black Rose Writing in Texas while Texas-born Stephanie’s publishing company is Sunpenny Publishing in England.

They live in Scotland and are in the United States for a book promotional tour this month. Stephanie is the daughter of Nancy Rhodes Potter, who grew up in Carlinville, Ohio.

Stephanie had 150 rejection slips on manuscripts from children’s stories, and an adult novel for which she interviewed country- western singer Willie Nelson before her first success. On the other hand, Alan’s book was accepted on his first try.

Alan was born in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow University. As a child, he survived getting lost under an abandoned city building with a labyrinth of tunnels and had a fractured skull after falling down a mountain. He had a stuttering problem during his childhood. More than 30 years ago, he was informed that he would never make it as a pastor. Since that time, he has shepherded churches in six parishes.

The couple met when he exchanged pulpits in Pipe Creek, Texas. She interviewed him for the local newspaper. After Alan’s wife died a couple of years ago, the two reconnected.

“The Scent of Time” sends young Drew Faulkner fleeing from his dead-end job in Edinburgh, determined to win the love of Lucy Oxford. He lives in today’s world, and she lives in 1867.

“Bridge to Nowhere,” finds “Miz Mike,” from Three Prongs, Texas, being asked to solve a murder mystery.