Ken and his kids play a game.

Ken and his kids play a game.

Ken spent most of his life as an ordinary geek, playing D&D, video games, watching and reading geeky movies and books. He was GuideBAT on AOL when it was cool (for geeks), and ran a play-by-email Star Trek RPG called Starbase Phoenix. He also succeeded in marrying the love of his life, and having two great kids.

Then, one day, everything changed.

He answered an open call for new writers for the GeekDad blog at Wired.com, put on by Chris Anderson. He made the cut, and started writing up a storm. Six months later, Chris asked him to take over the blog. In the following two years, Ken has secured a book deal, and GeekDad’s readership has exploded (not, you know, literally).

It’s all been a crazy ride and doesn’t look to end anytime soon, but he hasn’t given up his day-job quite yet.