Jim Melko

Jim Melko is the author of The Creator's Craft and How Christmas Got Its Colors. He is a retired English teacher from the Dayton Public Schools system in Ohio, where he taught and worked with high school students at risk for dropping out. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

For further information about The Creator's Craft, including a way to communicate directly with Jim even while you are still reading the book, visit the website at creatorscraft•net.

Jim came up with the idea for How Christmas Got Its Colors while looking at a traffic light during the Christmas season. Jim is a professional songwriter and his initial idea was to try to write it as a Christmas song like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The original draft of the book was actually a "story map" for the song. After writing that, he realized it worked better as a children's book.

Jim is also a professional songwriter. His catalog of song demos can be found at ReverbNation by searching his name.