Charley Pearson

Charley Pearson retired from a career with the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and now lives in a thriving metropolis of several hundred people in the Smokies, since mountains are more fun to hike than oceans. He stays in touch with friends via online computer games, and plays ‘at’ tennis (he used to be horrible, but has improved to highly dubious).

He’s a member of NCWN and headed his local writers group for several years. Won 'best anthology' at the 2017 Killer Nashville writers conference for a humor collection, and 'best thriller' at the 2019 conference for medical thriller SCOURGE. Had short stories published in a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s fantasy anthologies, which have been translated into French, German, and Italian, so he can no longer read his own material.

He toured a mosque in Samarkand, snorkeled off Hawaii, and saw the midnight sun in Narvik. He took ballet with four other fathers at his daughters’ studio, and watched the ‘rooster tail’ off the stern of a high-speed aircraft carrier in phosphorescent plankton at night.

He first got the idea for medical thriller ‘Scourge’ back in college, but had to wait for computer technology to mature enough to make the story scarier. The San Francisco Review of Books loved it.

RIPPLE IN THE SEA is his most recent novel, about a Japanese-American girl who infiltrates a WWII Japanese POW camp to free victims of medical experiments. It includes a rare glimpse into civilian life in wartime Japan. That one was inspired by his father’s experience as the U.S. Army Air Corps meteorologist on Tinian during the war, giving the weather reports for the B-29 raids on Japan. Released 15August 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. Now a finalist for the Killer Nashville writers conference "Silver Falchion" award for best thriller.

More info at www.charleypearson.com