Before turning to fiction writing, Charles spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter and journalist in middle Georgia, covering everything from high school sports to front page news stories. During the last fourteen years of his career he worked as Managing Editor for “The Robins Review” a military town’s 25,000 weekly edition publication. The city’s mixed population of civilian and military called for a unique brand of writing skills which Charles found comfortable supplying. The highlight of his career was in 1988 when a sharply written article was picked up by the national wire services and republished around the world. The topic was the advance of technology in the Air Force’s electronic warfare division and aptly titled “Stone Age to Star Wars.” Copies of the article made it to the desk of then President Ronald Regan who had initially emblazoned the term into the minds of the world.
Sadly though, just as Wells’ writing career was taking off, his personal world was “going south and silent.” Plagued since childhood by an ongoing progressive hearing loss, he lost all usable hearing and went completely deaf. When the handicap peaked, he found it impossible to function for the newspaper any longer and resigned at the age of 38. He fell back on his original “day job” returning to work as an electronics technician
Charles E Wells
A prolific writer of mystery/thrillers, welcome to Charles as December's Featured Author. His own story is both fascinating, moving and remarkable, I found myself thinking 'wow!' and I believe you will certainly enjoy his insightful and witty interview.
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