Christopher R German

I grew up in Stratford, CT, and started writing as a kid. I was first awarded a book award for a children's book I wrote in first grade, and that always kind of stuck with me.  I spent most of my life thus far as "That Sailing Guy" however, despite having two degrees in journalism and broadcasting. In 2018, however, for the second time in my life, my sailing business was killed due to a hurricane. It was then I decided to pursue my degrees and created The Charted Life Productions.

My first novel, Whither We Tend, was born out of my frustration about the state of our Nation. Whether it was the fact that my primary school teachers messed me up so badly for life or the fact that the U.S. Coast Guard poisoned me, I don't know. Follow that up to my business being stolen from me by a corrupt politician and then the year of Government ineptitude during the Pandemic, something inside me saw the world from both Gus and Simon's perspectives. After all that, the novel just flowed forth.

I am now working as a journalist for Basin Mediactive. It's not my dream job, but it pays the bills and I think Klamath Falls is better because of my efforts. For the longest time, Klamath Falls suffered without a proper fourth estate and the politics have run amok. My ideal job would be working on longer form story telling and making movies. That would have been impossible for me to even dream at one time, because of my ADHD, but I am getting better finally.