Kevin C. Mills

@kevinc.mills

About

Kevin C. Mills has been an award-winning journalistfor over 20 years. During his career he has written for the Lewiston SunJournal, The Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald and the Lynn Daily EveningItem, as well as freelancing for various newspapers and magazines.

He has been recognized multiple times by the MainePress Association as well as the New England Press Association, the MaineAssociation of Basketball Coaches and the Maine Interscholastic AthleticAdministrators Association.

In addition to his work as a journalist, hepublished a novel, Sons and Daughters ofthe Ocean in October 2010. He followed that with a nonfiction work called Sidelined, based on his career as asports journalist.

Sonsand Daughters of the Ocean  is based loosely on themaritime history of various ancestors. The characters are rooted in true lifeexperiences from the age of sail and portray an accurate account of life manygenerations ago. It is about three teens growing up in small Maine coastalvillage in which all lives are impacted by the fortunes of the sea.

Sidelinedlooks at journalism in a unique way. Reliving his own experiences with some ofNew England’s top newspapers, Mills presents strange but true episodes from hisown career. He chronicles some of his favorite incidents with humor and witwhile presenting the finished product, which barely hint at the story behindits publication.