User:Rdkepple

R.D. Kepple is the pseudonym used in fiction for the nonfiction author, Rick Kepple, born as Richard D. Kepple, June 17, 1957, in West Central Illinois and he is an independent journalist currently residing on a farm near Richland, Missouri owned by his friend, Jennifer (J.J.) Pritchett. They are creative partners and not in a relationship.

Background:Kepple is a widower and Army veteran born to Ralph and Irene Kepple in Avon, Illinois. The couple were hard working, independent post WW II Americans struggling to raise boys. Rick has three brothers; Robert the youngest, and older brothers, Terry and Larry. Rick has been married three times. Rick was married to the artist, Dora Culver until her death at 42-years-old to cirrhosis of the liver in 2003. Ms Culver helped him to live comfortably with his autism and she helped him how to focus on his journalism career.

Professional Life:Rick Kepple attributes his success to his late wife wife's help, Kepple had worked as a freelance writer and journalist having written or photographed for various publications including: Fur-Fish-Game magazine, Quinlan Publishing property management newsletters and too many magazines and newspapers to note. Kepple also worked for newspapers as a reporter, sports editor and photojournalist. The writer/photographer owned a small newsletter publishing company for a time in St. Robert, Missouri. In 2007, the widower created R.D. Kepple Consulting LLC and began volunteering as a public relations consultant for struggling artists. In 2012, Kepple began studying music and video production on YouTube and from entertainment peers. In 2012, Rick Kepple bought his first camcorder and with the help of Ray "Carson" Campbell, a newspaper editor and radio DJ, and promising to hold the video until after Campbell's death, created the first short film made in Crocker, Missouri at Dell Mack's home. In 2016, Kepple and Pritchett filmed elderly Delbert "Dell Mack" McKinnon. The information helped Kepple to write an induction for Dell Mack to get into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame for his work with Goldband Records in the 1950's and '60's. The author also gives guitars away to adults and children who otherwise could not afford their favorite musical instrument. Kepple still studies the electric guitar to manage the autism. Kepple maintains that it was the words and lyrics of the singer/songwriter Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks that most inspired him to start working in music and video after his wife's death. Presently he creates films for DR J Studio LLC and is the publicist for Delbert "Dell Mack" McKinnon, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, in Crocker, Missouri USA.