David Tyron “Ty” King was born in 1959 in the tiny hamlet of Houston, Texas, where he led a wholly unremarkable life (as one tends to do in Houston, Texas) until the 7th grade, when he met 13-year old classmate and goddess, Michelle Dianne “Tel” Todd; who showed him how to truly experience joy for the first time in his life and, even more importantly, turned him on to Pink Floyd.
After a whirlwind six-year courtship, the two were married in either 1980 or 1981 (depending on which of them you ask).
It was while the two were students at the University of Texas (U.T.) that Ty first discovered a passion (or more precisely, a “compulsion”) for writing and a life-long fondness (some might say an “overfondness”) for parenthesis (like this lovely set).
After graduating college, the happy and now properly educated couple moved to Los Angeles, California where Ty spent his days seeking a job writing for television, while Michelle spent her nights questioning her decision to marry at such a young age.
In 1990, as foretold by a fortune cookie, Ty began what would become a 13-year career writing and producing for a string of television series, beginning with the NBC sit-com “Family Ties” in 1987. Over the next baker’s dozen years, he wrote and/or produced and/or developed and/or watched many television classics, including “Growing Pains”, “Newhart”, “Empty Nest” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
It was while filming a TV pilot in Vancouver in the summer of 1992 that Ty realized (and Michelle graciously agreed) that he/they would rather raise their two beautiful sons Nicholas and Jonathan (and a third son whose name they could not recall, and who later turned out to be apocryphal) in the scenic Pacific Northwest (aka, “NOT Hollywood”).
After their arrival in Washington State, Ty spent the next two decades unpacking and learning the language.
Eventually, Ty stumbled into a five-year stretch writing for a series of well-received video games, followed by a memorable stint as the lead singer and face of the multi-platinum musical group, “The Jonas Brothers”, before leaving the band in 2019 to pursue a solo career [citation needed].
In late 2020 or early 2021 (depending on which of them you ask), Ty wrote what is probably the most annoying middle school chapter book in the history of middle school chapter books, “The Super Secret Stewart Switching Society” (available here) for which he shamelessly shills on Twitter, Post-it notes, and in his various online “writer’s biographies”, including this one.
Ty’s plans for the future include dying at some point (probably from something embarrassing and easily preventable) and then being quickly forgotten – hopefully, not before selling hundreds of thousands of millions of copies of “The Super Secret Stewart Switching Society” (still available here), or simply by saying, “Alexa, order a thousand copies of ‘The Super Secret Stewart Switching Society’ by Ty King from amazon.com.”
But as of this morning at 8:15 am local time, Ty and Michelle and Nicholas and Jonathan continue to live a life of quiet desperation in Mercer Island, Washington; an island paradise perhaps best known as the birthplace of actor/comedian Joel McHale [citation needed].
The End.
(author’s note: Michelle King (nee “Todd”) has lived her own incredible life of amazing personal accomplishment, but this isn’t her biography, is it? No, it is not.)