User:Drkstr0130

I have probably played the album CSN a thousand times over the years. The song Dark Star always struck a chord in me, and so when, in 1978, I took a class in Science Fiction I started developing a character named DarkStar in short stories I wrote. The stories never went anywhere. I imagine they are in a box at my parents house in Kansas City Kansas. When the internet and email made it rise (thank you Al Gore) I wanted to use Darkstar as my email address and it had been taken several times over. Yahoo made suggestions and I took drkstr0130@yahoo.com. It is still active today. The name, DarkStar, however, stuck with me. When I began traveling to SF conventions (Cons), I would use the name on my name tag and in 1992 when I started my first publishing company I registered it under the name DarkStar Productions.

DarkStar is actually Timothy E. Keltner -- that's me! I live in Overland Park Kansas on the Kansas side of metropolitan Kansas City. I am the Manager of a new Political Action Committee (PAC) Citizens for an Independent America (www.ciapac.org). My interests are Politics and Political Activism, Culinary Arts, Music, Dance, Literature, Writing and Film Production and I have over ten years experience in Call Centers - both Inbound and Outbound. I have recently been attending UMKC to work on my Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree with an emphasis in Business Communications. But basically, I'm first and foremost, the father of two terrific kids. With both in college, they are my focus and my joy. In my past, I have been a Singer, Waiter, Cook, a published author and the President of the Kansas City Dance Theatre Company (KCDTC) - where my wife is the Senior Artistic Director. I am an amateur Marketing and Public Relations buff and have become adept at using Social Marketing outlets (like Facebook, LInked-In, Yelp, Merchant Circle, Manta, etc.) to make connections for KCDTC and my wife's dance studio Hill-Top (www.hill-topstudio.com).