Hey, all. Haven't posted here in a while.
In case anyone is interested, I wanted to plug my new website,
www.ken-jennings.com. Don't forget the hyphen, or you wind up at the awesome, all-text website of some guy in Florida who owns all the kenjennings.* domains and ain't selling.
My first book,
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Compulsive, Competitive World of Trivia Buffs, is set for release September 12 (just three months!) Though the book covers a pretty broad swath of subjects (the history of trivia, the different subcultures who enjoy it, the reasons for its modern-day ubiquity and popularity) the main narrative arc is (naturally) a behind-the-scenes look at my
Jeopardy! run, so I thought it might be of interest to folks here. The book also includes some of my conversations with game show writers, and a whole chapter giving a brief summary of game show history and culture.
In preparation for its release, I thought it would be fun to try and build up a little community of trivia and game show fans of all stripes (or, as Random House would call you, "likely book buyers"). My daily blog and a message board will be going live within the month (fingers crossed) but you can already browse the static part of the site (a bio, an FAQ, details about the book and other projects, and so forth). I also want to start up a weekly trivia e-mailing, maybe as a way to give away some signed copies of
Brainiac, come release date. You can register for the mailing list by entering an e-mail address at ken-jennings.com.
You can also act as informal beta testers for me, since the site is up but isn't really well-indexed by search engines yet. If you have problems with the site or notice anything at all goofy, feel free to drop us a line at webmaster [at] ken-jennings.com or ken [at] the same domain. Or let us know in a follow-up post here.
Thanks!