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– Member Biography –

CHUCK LYONS

Chuck Lyons writes because he enjoys strong characters, believable plots, and a good love story. His works study relationship growth between the characters and demonstrate the premise that reason, honesty, and personal strength necessarily underpin happiness and lasting love.

His first book, Love on His Mind, collects eight fictional short stories and novellas within the unifying thread, Love as It Should Be. (Published in 2002 by iUniverse, ISBN 0595-22554-3)

His second book, Shanghaied Heart, relates the story of the shotgun marriage of a Negro farm laborer’s daughter to a poor White farmer’s son. Set in the racially turbulent 1960s, the novel draws parallels between this 15 year-old rape victim’s quest for personal acceptance, and the American Negro’s quest for social acceptance. (Published in 2008 by ePress-Online, available in multi-format ebook and print.)

His upcoming novel, Off-field Landing, tells the story of a young man who crash-lands his small plane smack into a deadly Western Montana land feud. Once on the ground, he meets a jaded young woman trapped in the crossfire between the two warring pioneer clans. Sparks fly, but not from gunfire alone. (Anticipated release in late 2009)

Lyons, a mechanical engineer and technical writer, has published numerous adventure and hobby articles related to his interest in antique machinery, sailboat racing, his extensive overseas travels, and his 2-year stint working in the oil fields of eastern Saudi Arabia. While stationed in the Arabian Desert with far too much time on his hands, he began writing an experimental novel, Princesses of Fox Hill, from which he discovered the gratification of writing fiction. A graduate of Spokane Community College, Yakima Valley College and Washington State University, he spent twenty years of his professional career in Spokane as an aluminum plant engineer/project manager after emigrating from Central Washington’s Yakima Valley in 1970.

Contact Information:

Chuck Lyons

5163 Wallbridge Rd.

Deer Park, Washington, 99006

clyons@fastlane-i.com

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