- Professional name: Keir Thomas
- Actual name: Keir Thomas-Bryant (thanks to marriage).
- Age: In the middle, sadly.
- Occupation: Writer, content creator.
- Where I exist online: https://linktr.ee/keirthomas
Here’s my career so far. If you want full career details, visit my LinkedIn page.
- Education: First class honours degree in Creative Arts from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales, I think, or something like that).
- Magazines #1: Built my career as a staff member on computer magazines during the boom period, and worked for most UK B2C technology publishers.
- Magazines #2: Went on to edit computer magazines for half a decade.
- Textbooks #1: Went on to write best-selling computer textbooks about Linux and Apple technologies. One of my books won an award, meaning I can call myself an “award-winning writer”.
- Textbooks #2: For a year I was a textbooks commissioning editor at Apress, too.
- Textbooks #3: Wrote and then self-published Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, which would go on to be downloaded over a million times.
- The Freelance Years #1: Worked as a professional blogger. One of the blogs I wrote is a footnote in computing history because it inspired the person behind BitCoin to go into hiding and never be seen again.
- The Freelance Years #2: Did LOTS of freelance journalism and blogging for various magazines and sites. See my LinkedIn – there’s a portfolio PDF hosted there.
- Puppywolf: Started a “professional hobby”: Formed a poetry publishing company in Manchester, UK that published several anthologies of local poets, amongst other things.
- Content Marketing: Decided it was time to earn a decent living, and switched careers to content marketing at one of the UK’s largest software companies. I have since spent nearly a decade both creating and managing content marketing campaigns.
- The Side Hustle: Throughout everything, have been writing novels and occasionally sitcoms with a hope of this being a professional endeavour at some point.
