Chuck Carter

Chuck Carter is a former business writer, editor, publisher and PR agent whose clients and subjects include Microsoft, Compaq, Dominion Semiconductor, Honda, E-Z-GO Textron, Bridgestone/Firestone, Sony of Latin America, the Chicago Bears, Mitsubishi Polysilicon, Imagyn International, 7-Eleven Corporation, NGK Ceramics, The Japanese-American Economic Review and National Science Center. U.S. Government clients include the Atomic Energy Commission, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Department of Homeland Security. For PR clients, he earned free placements in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Better Homes and Gardens, Consumers Digest, American Health, Modern Medicine and Reuters-Global. He’s also been published under his own name in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His News Releases have been translated into foreign languages in Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim. While he was editor and publisher of a west coast Florida newspaper, voter participation in covered precincts was twice that of the rest of the city. And a New York television special he promoted generated such a response, the outsourced call center’s phone system crashed. The Half-Life of Carson Hood is his first novel.