Artwork by Kail Tescar
For almost 15 years, Kevin worked as a newspaper reporter and editor on the "cops and courts" beat at a twice-weekly community newspaper in Paola, Kansas, a small town just outside Kansas City. His photographs, news stories and features have won numerous honors from state and national journalism organizations, and he is a two-time winner of the Kansas Press Association’s highest award for in-depth reporting. So why did he abandon the cushy newspaper gig in early 2003 for Star Trek? He's a fanboy at heart. Since 1997, Kevin has been a contributing writer for Star Trek Communicator, the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. That role has allowed him to cross the paths of Star Trek professionals from all aspects of the franchise, including performers, producers, script writers, designers, illustrators, Christmas ornament sculptors, motion-simulation ride operators, food servers at Quark's Bar … and oh yeah, Star Trek fiction writers.
From the latter category, Kevin met Dayton Ward, who has graciously allowed him to cut his eye teeth in the fiction world by pairing up on several installments for Pocket Books Starfleet Corps of Engineers series of e-Books. Kevin plans to continue his writing partnership with Dayton within the world of Star Trek and beyond it, maybe even penning that novel about the small-town news biz that they dust of now and again.
In addition to his various forays into the Star Trek universe, Kevin has also been a contributing feature writer for Amazing Stories Magazine. You can also spot his work in the hot new magazine FLIcK, available at major cinema locations around the country beginning in May 2005.
A graduate of the University of Kansas, Kevin counts himself as very thankful for the person who, at age 9, tipped him off to the fact that Star Trek was a live-action television show before it was a Saturday-morning cartoon.
In more normal news, Kevin married Star Trek novice Michelle Bonds in June 2003. She's been shaking her head ever since.