Blue House Tavern Press is run by Patrick and Alice O'Kelley, and is located in Barbecue Township, Harnett County, North Carolina    

The corporation was created after the publication of Patrick O'Kelley's first volume of "Nothing but Blood and Slaughter" in 2004.  A few years before Patrick O'Kelley retired from the U.S. Army he was given a mission to support a Special Forces Team who would be going through the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana.  For them it was a week of intense, realistic training.  For Patrick it was a week of waiting for the observer/controller to call him to deliver supplies and equipment to them.  He had a lot of free time.  He had been reenacting the Revolutionary War for over 20 years and decided to go to the Post Library and see what they had there on the Revolutionary War.  He found a single book written in the Bicentennial, that was part travel guide and part history.  He was amazed at what the book did not have, but he knew existed because of his time reenacting these different battles.  He then decided to find all the battles he could in that little book and   write down who was there.  He figured he could write a better book in a matter of months.  That was in the summer of 1998. 

For the next five years he amassed a huge amount of primary research, manuscripts and books on the war, tripling his personal library.  He learned that most of the books out there that were taken as fact were actually flawed in many ways.  This wasn’t due to any deliberate intent of the authors, but mainly due to the amount of research that was available at the time the books were written.  He tried to use all primary accounts in his books, but even those could be flawed if they were from very old memories, or if they were being used as propaganda against the enemy. 

When it came time to incorporate his publications into a single company, he had to choose a name.  He was working on the Francis Marion orderly book at the time, and his wife suggested he name the company after the Blue House Tavern that was constantly placed off limits to the soldiers of South Carolina, due to their extreme amounts of jollification in the tavern.