As a chemical engineering retiree from the hectic business world of sales and marketing, Chuck now relaxes in the culture-rich, laid-back resort city of Key West, FL, where as a member of the Key West Writers Guild, he actively fellowships with several dozen other published writers on a week-to-week basis. In this capacity there, he’s authored as pure fiction "Ghost of Africa,“ (2019), American for Sale,” (2016), “Young Again...and Again...and Again,” (2014), and “Spy Mates, (2013). These retirement-era books, all offered on Amazon, culminate decades of professional work immersed in the nonfiction world of the written word as a McGraw-Hill editor and writer, the founding editor of DuPont’s monthly “Journal of Teflon,” a freelance writer for an ad agency, the nonfiction book “Pondering Life’s Imponderables,” and the editor of five Amazon books by other authors.