Kevin Miller Books in Order

If you want the classic starting point: Up the Creek! → Unlimited → The Water War
If you want his spooky side: Pumpkins → Brooms
If you want comic-book weirdness: Meth: The Immortal #1 → Meth: The Immortal #2 → Meth: The Immortal #3
If you already like small-town chaos and want more: Snowbound! → Quiet on Set! → LARPers

Kevin Miller grew up on a farm just outside Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, in the kind of place where weather, distance, and imagination all feel larger than life. That prairie upbringing stayed with him. You can see it in his books again and again, in the creeks, grain elevators, little theaters, hockey rinks, and small-town kids who keep finding trouble.

His path to writing was not a straight one. Miller went off and chased several childhood dreams, working in film as a screenwriter, director, producer, and editor, while also building a career as a freelance writer and book editor. Over the years he worked on more than a dozen films and edited more than 300 books, fiction and nonfiction alike.

He likes stories with motion.

That shows in his fiction. Whether he is writing a canoe trip gone wrong, a pirate radio prank, a haunted Halloween mystery, or a comic about an immortal pig, his books tend to move fast, keep the stakes clear, and stay close to character. He is also a longtime comic book fan, which helps explain the playful weirdness of Meth: The Immortal #1 and the visual snap of many of his scenes.

The turning point for his fiction career came through Up the Creek!. Miller wrote the first draft in 2001, shortly after the birth of his first child, and nearly sent it to a Canadian publisher. When that publisher went under, the manuscript was shelved, and he spent the next fourteen years focused mainly on film work. In 2015, with filmmaking opportunities slowing and self-publishing becoming more practical, he pulled the manuscript back out and gave it another shot.

That decision opened the door to the Milligan Creek books, which became his best known fiction. Up the Creek!, Unlimited, and The Water War all build from ordinary kid ideas that spiral into big adventures, and readers tend to come for the humor, the momentum, and the believable friendship between the boys at the center. Later books such as Snowbound! and Quiet on Set! keep that same energy while widening the town around them.

He also has a darker lane. Pumpkins kicks off his Uncanny Icons series with a Halloween story that mixes bullying, grief, and paranormal mystery, while Brooms heads north into witches, lake-monster lore, and curling. Across these very different books, Miller returns to a few things again and again: kids testing limits, close friendships, prairie settings, and the moment when fun tips into real consequences.

He teaches as much as he writes.

In addition to books and film projects, Miller has led writing workshops in schools, colleges, and conferences across Canada and the United States, and also in the UK and Australia. He also founded a large online screenwriting community, which fits his long-running habit of thinking hard about how stories work and helping other writers do the same. His own life has given him plenty of material too, from world travel and documentary work to a brief appearance as Lex Luthor on Smallville.

Now he lives in Kimberley, British Columbia, with his wife Heidi and their four children. When he is not writing or editing, he is often doing something active, skateboarding, skiing, hiking, fishing, playing hockey, or stacking firewood, or settling in for movies and NFL football. It feels like a good match for an author whose stories rarely sit still for long.