Simon St. Scot, is an international automotive journalist and magazine editor known for his scrupulously honest new car reviews and entertaining automotive feature stories. His world is filled with luxury, largely provided by the world's car companies using exotic locales, the finest hotels, gourmet food and vintage wines to attract St. Scot and his colleagues to new car introductions. 
St. Scot lives in the upstairs of a refurbished, old firehouse. Downstairs stands his collection of cherished cars from an earlier era that he tinkers with in his spare time. Writing about new cars, living with old ones... it's the perfect life for a car guy. A perfect life until his world comes crashing down. Someone is claiming that St. Scot is dirty, that he has sold out to the "dark side" and his opinions are for sale. When a colleague is found dead, he soon finds himself at the center of a plot to counterfeit the world's greatest sports cars and to control a worldwide publishing empire - no matter what the cost. His only hope for salvation lies in setting aside his knife and fork long enough to negotiate international intrigue, corporate greed, carnal temptation, and ultimately murder and mayhem.

Eat Free or Die

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kevin Clemens

Mystery

River's Bend Press

Americans love their automobiles. More than a mode of transportation, cars provide us with freedom, social equality, and entertainment. The price we pay for our infatuation with four wheels is high. Air pollution, global climate change, energy insecurity, injury and death, and urban sprawl are fair charges against the automobile. Some critics suggest we abandon the automobile. This is not likely. In The Crooked Mile, award-winning journalist and author, Kevin Clemens, examines the past, present, and future of energy and infrastructure to take us through the challenges of depleting oil, global climate change, innovative automotive technologies, and new concepts in personal mobility to reach a better transportation future.

The Crooked Mile: Through peak oil, biofuels, hybrid cars, and global climate change to reach a brighter future

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Demontreville Press, inc.

In the third and final volume of his iconic Motor Oil For a Car Guys Soul series, author, journalist and adventurer Kevin Clemens has written on a variety of topics of vital interest to automobile enthusiasts. The first volume of Motor Oil won the Ken Purdy Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism. The second volume provided more insight into the quirky and arcane world of the committed car guy of either gender. In his latest book are stories about the earliest days of the automobile, the life of an automotive artist, the joys of micro car motoring and the art of working on cars. There are reviews and driving impressions of more than twenty cars that, while largely unappreciated now, may someday become collectable classics. There are travel stories that range from driving a 1929 Chrysler Roadster from Peking to Paris and scuttling around the Pyrenees Mountains in a tiny two-cylinder East German Trabant. Clemens has written extensively about the changing world and what those changes mean for the enthusiast and his observations on topics such as biofuels, the future of oil, hybrid vehicles, and what role car guys of either gender will play in the future of transportation and the automobile provide a deeper understanding and a basis for discussion.

Motor Oil For a Car Guy's Soul Volume III

Demontreville Press

The first volume of Motor Oil For a Car Guy s Soul was published in 2004 and won the 2005 Ken Purdy Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism. A compilation of the author s columns that first appeared in European Car magazine, it received critical acclaim and struck a chord with several generations of automotive enthusiasts. Now, Motor Oil For a Car Guy s Soul Volume II picks up from the first book, entertaining car guys of either gender with a mixture of additional insights, observations, and tall tales.

Motor Oil For a Car Guy's Soul Volume II

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Between 1902 and 1918, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided funds for the construction of 66 libraries in the State of Minnesota. Author Kevin Clemens visited and photographed the surviving 48 Carnegie Libraries in the state and has combined these photographs with original period postcards and photographs of the surviving and razed structures and with quotes from city and library officials to create an historical record of Andrew Carnegie s legacy in Minnesota.

Carnegie Libraries of Minnesota