Everything But The Kitchen Sink: A Writer's Memoir

This is the full story of my life, from fragmented memories at around age three to current experiences as I wander through the ninth decade of my existence. Everything that occurred to me became another adventure, from a bike trip to the airport for an airplane fight at age fourteen to an assignment in World War II that led to my lifelong career as a writer. Besides such ventures as analyzing enemy air activity during the Korean War, I covered desegregation violence in Tennessee as a newspaper reporter, started Nashville's first slick paper monthly magazine, and since "retirement" created five Greg McKenzie mystery novels, two Sid Chance mysteries, a Post Cold War Political Thriller Trilogy and a standalone suspense story. I detail how I use personal experiences in my fiction, and in other exploits I chronicle two trips across Europe, one to the Holy Land and another across the Far East. In other words, this is a lifelong adventure tale.

Author: Chester D. Campbell
Publisher: Sarah A. Campbell
Published: 10/16/2017
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9780984604425

About the Author
Campbell, Chester D.: - Chester Campbell got bitten by the writing bug when he started work as a newspaper reporter while a journalism student at the University of Tennessee. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, magazine editor, political speechwriter, advertising copywriter, public relations professional and association executive. An Air Force intelligence officer in the Korean War, he retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. His first Greg McKenzie novel, Secret of the Scroll, won a Bloody Dagger Award and was a finalist for Foreword Magazine's Mystery of the Year in 2003. The first Sid Chance book, The Surest Poison, won the 2009 Silver Falchion Award at the Killer Nashville Mystery Conference. He served as secretary of the Southeast Chapter, Mystery Writers of America, and is past president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime.