Ken Van Camp
... may not be the perfect human, but he's trainable. At least that's what Keke says!
Ken is a dog lover, freelance writer, voiceover artist, audiobook producer, software engineer, and the author of Keke's Guide to Training Your Human.
Ken appeared as Mike Roth's guest on the podcast Open Forum in The Villages, Florida September 6, 2024.
You can hear the interview on your favorite podcast reader or on Buzzsprout.com here.
Keke’s Guide to Training Your Human is a dog lover's blog, a podcast, and now a book! Click the image of Keke's Guide or this link for more information and links to the book, blog, podcast, and Keke's Facebook page.
New episodes every week.
Because dogs are people too, you know!
Freelance Writer:
Ken Van Camp is a freelance writer. He writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and is the author of Keke's Guide to Training Your Human, a blog and podcast written from a dog's perspective (and now a book too).
Other than Keke's blog, Ken wrote the following recently published stories:
Tech and Me, June 2024: Open Source: The Free Software That Isn't
Highly Recommended, May 2024: The Introduction of Burnt Marshmallows to Denmark
Illumination's Mirror, May 2024: My Daughter is NOT Getting Married Again This Year
New Writers Welcome, March 2024: How to Increase Readership on Your Blog or Other New Medium Publication
Good Vibes Club, February 2024: How Can One Person Feed a Million Starving Children?
Illumination, February 2024: They Couldn’t Hear Until He Listened to Them
Bouncin' and Behavin' Blogs, February 2024: A Human’s View of Puppies: Those Cuddly, Adorable Balls of Innocence
A Smiling World, February 2024: Ballad of the Sandhill Cranes
Illumination, February 2024: Harmony on the Hull
Good Vibes Club, January 2024: It’s No Fun Getting Sick — Part 1 and It’s No Fun Getting Sick—Conclusion
Good Vibes Club, January 2024: Is It Spring Yet?
MuddyUm, January 2024: Exercise Your Humans
Good Vibes Club, December 2023: Keke’s Christmas Wish
Good Vibes Club, December 2023: Naughty or Nice List
Good Vibes Club, December 2023: Thanksgiving With the Twins
MuddyUm, November 2023: What’s In Your Stomach?
Good Vibes Club, November 2023: The Secret of “Remember Who You Are”
MuddyUm, October 2023: New York: A Helluva Town
Good Vibes Club, September 2023: Changes in Attitude
Good Vibes Club, September 2023: I Got Puppy Scammed and Lived to Write About It
Good Old Boat, July/August 2023: All in the Family
Small Craft Advisor, June 2023: Sailing as a Lifetime Teacher
Village Neighbors, June 2023: His Empathy Spanned the World
Small Craft Advisor, April 2023: Rhapsody on Lake Harris
Hallard Press, February 2023: New York: A Helluva Town
The Florida Writer, February 2023: This is Where Beauty Lives
Village Neighbors, January 2023: What Makes Lou Soukup Run?
Village Neighbors, December 2022: Bouncing Through Life
Village Neighbors, November 2022: Her Nursing Uniform Was Fatigues
Small Craft Advisor, Sep/Oct 2022: Return to Mullet Key Bayou
Village Neighbors, September 2022: That Indomitable Beattie Bunch
Good Old Boat, July/August 2022: Ramping Up
Good Old Boat, July/August 2022: Changes in Attitude
Village Neighbors, July 2022: Eric Lundberg's 15-Year Journey to Build a Classic Wooden Sailboat
Messing About in Boats, November 2021: I Almost Didn't Go Sailing Today
Voiceover Artist:
Ken is an experienced voiceover artist and sound engineer.
He is the voice of the podcast Keke's Guide to Training Your Human. Listen to a sample episode on this website or search for "Keke's Guide" on your favorite podcast player.
He narrated and engineered the following audiobook:
Audible February 2023: Marooned in 1799: A Time Travel Novel, written by Bill Hurst, narrated by Ken Van Camp
Software Engineer:
Ken is a senior Java and Python developer focused on highly distributed applications and micro-service architecture, including AWS serverless/lambdas. He has a strong background in software security, agile, test-driven development and continuous integration, object-oriented analysis, framework design, and architecture.
Check out his tech posts on Medium:
Open Source: The Free Software That Isn't
AWS lambda now supports partial batch failures. But is it the best approach?
Ken is a dog lover, freelance writer, blogger, podcast performer, voiceover artist, audiobook producer, software engineer, and sailor based in Florida, U.S.
He has written on a variety of subjects, from sailing to personal profiles to software development to dogs.
His writing has appeared in Medium, Substack, The Florida Writer, Good Old Boat, Village Neighbors, Small Craft Advisor, Object Magazine, C/C++ Users Journal, and Computer Shopper.
He has published books on Kindle and paperback (The Dog Park Massacre and Refuge of the Runaways).
His podcast, Keke's Guide to Training Your Human, can be found on all major podcast players.
He has recorded his first audiobook on Audible, "Marooned in 1799: A Time Travel Novel".
Contact Ken via email at: ken@vancamp.info
Follow Keke's Guide to Training Your Human
On Medium: https://medium.com/kekesguide
On Substack: https://kekesguide.substack.com/
On your favorite podcast player
Follow Ken on Medium: https://medium.com/@kenvancamp
Connect with him on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kvancamp
Follow Ken's poetry and sailing blog: http://followthewake.blogspot.com/
