After a youth misspent in commercial real estate, Kenn discovered he loves to write. When no “Real Publisher” wanted to publish his goofy intro to electricity (There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings) he formed Clearwater Publishing in 1990 to publish it himself. He’s published a dozen of his own books, both fiction and nonfiction, and written another half dozen that remain unpublished. As he says, “You’re a tough room to play if you’ll reject your own books.”
He paid for college (BA in English Lit) by playing music gigs, being a hired gun for a couple of recording studios, and giving as many as 40 guitar lessons every week. Later, for ten years he sang and played in the acoustic group “Cottonwood.”
Kenn was active in the Colorado writing and publishing communities for many years and served on the Board of Directors for a half dozen organizations. In 2016 he and his wife of over 50 years moved to Eugene, Oregon to be closer to their three grown sons. He still plays an occasional gig but hasn’t really gotten involved in the local writing or music communities. There’s just so many trees to look at and paths to explore and neighborhoods in which an old guy can get lost.
But maybe soon he’ll become more sociable again.
This is audio only recording of a talk Kenn gave to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers annual conference in 2006
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