Ken Van Camp

Freelance Writer:

Ken Van Camp is a full-time writer primarily on the Medium platform. 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. Because dogs are people too, you know!

Other than Keke's blog, Ken wrote the following recently published stories (other than Keke's blog):

• New Writers Welcome on Medium March 2024: How to Increase Readership on Your Blog or Other New Medium Publication

• Good Vibes Club on Medium February 2024: How Can One Person Feed a Million Starving Children?

• Illumination on Medium 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 on Medium February 2024: Ballad of the Sandhill Cranes

• Illumination on Medium February 2024: Harmony on the Hull

• Good Vibes Club on Medium January 2024: It’s No Fun Getting Sick — Part 1 and It’s No Fun Getting Sick—Conclusion

• Good Vibes Club on Medium January 2024: Is It Spring Yet?

• MuddyUm on Medium January 2024: Exercise Your Humans

• Good Vibes Club on Medium December 2023: Keke’s Christmas Wish

• Good Vibes Club on Medium December 2023: Naughty or Nice List

• Good Vibes Club on Medium December 2023: Thanksgiving With the Twins

• MuddyUm on Medium November 2023: What’s In Your Stomach?

• Good Vibes Club on Medium November 2023: The Secret of “Remember Who You Are”

• MuddyUm on Medium October 2023: New York: A Helluva Town

• Good Vibes Club on Medium September 2023: Changes in Attitude

• Good Vibes Club on Medium 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 new episodes every week 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 post in Medium from December 2021: AWS lambda now supports partial batch failures. But is it the best approach?

Ken is a freelance writer, blogger, podcast performer, voiceover artist, audiobook producer, senior software engineer, sailor, and dog lover based in The Villages, Florida.

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 on Kindle (Refuge of the Runaways)

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/