Charley Pearson retired from a career with the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and now lives in a thriving metropolis of several hundred people in the Smokies, since mountains are more fun to hike than oceans. He stays in touch with friends via online computer games, and plays 'at' tennis (he used to be horrible, but has improved to highly dubious).

He's a member of NCWN and headed his local writers group for several years. Won 'best anthology' at the 2017 Killer Nashville writers conference for a humor collection. Had short stories published in a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley's fantasy anthologies, which have been translated into French, German, and Italian, so he can no longer read his own material.

He toured a mosque in Samarkand, snorkeled off Hawaii, and saw the midnight sun in Narvik. He took ballet with four other fathers at his daughters' studio, and watched the 'rooster tail' off the stern of a high-speed aircraft carrier in phosphorescent plankton at night.

He first got the idea for medical thriller 'Scourge' back in college, but had to wait for computer technology to mature enough to make the story scarier. The San Francisco Review of Books loved it.

He's now marketing a YA historical about a Japanese-American girl who infiltrates a WWII Japanese POW camp to free victims of medical experiments. That one was inspired by his father's experience as the meteorologist on Tinian during the war, giving the weather reports for all the B-29 raids on Japan.