Still, Wells was a writer at heart and the tug to write fiction adventure stories was still strong but dormant.
A melancholic point in his career at MSNBC happened on that fateful morning of September 11, 2001.
Wells was in charge of the morning Imus chat and assisting another host working in the news room chats. Between the two, there were over 150 visitors in the two chat rooms when the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center. His steady and cool handling of site visitors as they flooded in for the latest information, established his reputation as being one of the internet’s top hosts controllers after he juggled a staggering 2400 chatters solo for almost an hour until help could arrive. He then stayed on duty for a solid twelve hours straight.
After MSNBC ended the chat room days and let Wells and a dozen others go, he stayed below the radar for several years until 2009 when his first fiction novel hit the markets under the name “Sand Hill Estates the Murders.” That book, one of the first classes of digital only books offered online, trudged along quietly with modest sales but drew few raves or reviews outside the mystery community.
In 2010 he took the characters and plots and reworked them, then expanded into today’s “Whispering Pines.”
From one book grew a nine and counting, series of fast paced suspense thrillers geared for all age groups.
Charles E Wells
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