Author · Sarasota, Florida

Alan McKee

Two books. One is about building a business that rocks. The other is about a man who touches the past and cannot let go of it.

Literary Fiction Business & Entrepreneurship
The Books
Cover of Somewhere Else by Alan McKee: a swirling Van Gogh night sky on a white field.

Fiction · Available September 1, 2026

Somewhere Else

Some doors, once opened, do not close.

Joe Patterson has spent forty years teaching history from the safe side of a lectern. Then his hand closes around an artifact in a museum case, and the past stops being a subject. It becomes a place.

At first it feels like grace: Independence Hall assembling itself around him, an ordinary man permitted to touch the moments that make a life feel larger than it is. He tells himself he can stop anytime. He is wrong. Something is waiting in those rooms with him, patient and very old, and it has begun to want more of him than history was ever meant to give back.

  • A novel
  • Supernatural
  • Paperback, hardcover, Kindle
"Haunting, imaginative, and deeply unsettling, Somewhere Else transforms the wonder of touching history into a gripping meditation on obsession and identity, drawing readers into a literary nightmare where every journey into the past risks erasing another piece of the present." NewInBooks
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Cover of The Amplified Entrepreneur by Alan McKee: a man in a blazer holding an electric guitar in a stage lit office.

Nonfiction · Available now

The Amplified Entrepreneur

Building a business that rocks.

What does it mean to be an amplified entrepreneur? It is more than running a business. It is projecting your own voice across the entrepreneurial landscape, turning personal limitations into opportunities, and building connections that resonate like a perfect rock anthem.

Part business guide and part rock history, the book takes its lessons from the people who lived them: the Beatles and their fearless experiments in the studio, the Rolling Stones across six decades of reinvention, David Bowie at the microphone and in the marketing meeting.

  • Business
  • Companion video series
  • Workbooks
  • Number one debut
    Amazon Business Education
  • Literary Titan
    Book Award
"It's like having a conversation with a business mentor who happens to have an amazing vinyl collection." Ronnie Michael, Solopreneur Business Strategist
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Alan McKee.

  • Build

    Eleven companies at last count, and two Localpreneur of the Year honors.

  • Teach

    Nearly twenty adult education courses, from the Beatles to American politics.

  • Play

    A classic rock band with friends, and one night introducing the Zombies from the stage.

About Alan

The Curious Kind

Alan McKee is an author, entrepreneur, and educator based in Sarasota, Florida. He grew up with two soundtracks running at the same time: the bell on the door of his father's small town Sunoco station, and whatever Beatles record he had saved his lawn mowing money to buy. Both are still running.

He has spent decades building companies, eleven at last count, among them Netwurx Technology Group, founded in 2004 as a Nextel dealer and grown into a full managed service provider, and Acurata Hospice Software Solutions, founded in 2018 after his own family could not get timely hospice care for a loved one in their final hours. SRQ Magazine named him Localpreneur of the Year twice: in 2018 for Netwurx, and in 2020 for Acurata.

In 2014 he began teaching adult education part time. The first class was a history of the Beatles, tracing their childhoods and the unlikely run of events that eventually put the four of them in the same room. He has since developed nearly twenty courses through Sarasota County's Adult Community Enrichment program on subjects ranging from classic rock and film to literature and American history, and he speaks to civic and business groups about the surprising overlap among the three.

He plays in a classic rock band with like minded friends, mostly for the joy of it, and has turned up in the occasional independent film, television spot, and commercial. Both habits trace back to a decision he made in middle age: that trying something you might be bad at makes you a more interesting person, and that the experiences you collect are worth more than the risk of embarrassment.

His first book, The Amplified Entrepreneur: Building a Business That Rocks, debuted at number one in Amazon's Business Education category and won a Literary Titan award. Somewhere Else, his first novel, arrives September 1, 2026. Both grew out of the same habit of mind: an insatiable curiosity, and a working knowledge of what happens when a person falls in love with a subject too hard.

"You don't need to be technically perfect to make an impact. You just need to show up with passion, authenticity, and the willingness to keep playing your unique song." From The Amplified Entrepreneur

Talks, Classes, and Book Clubs

Get in touch

Alan speaks to civic groups, business audiences, libraries, and book clubs on entrepreneurship, rock history, and the writing of both books. Reading group guides are available at no cost.

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