The Half-Life of Carson Hood

Chuck Carter is an editor, publisher and PR agent who has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Japanese-American Economic Review, and his News Releases have been translated into foreign languages in Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim. PR Clients and subjects include Microsoft, Compaq, Dominion Semiconductor, Honda, E-Z-GO Textron, Bridgestone/Firestone, Sony of Latin America, the Chicago Bears, Mitsubishi Polysilicon, Imagyn International, 7-Eleven Corporation, NGK Ceramics, and National Science Center. And for PR clients such as these, he earned free placements in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Better Homes and Gardens, Consumers Digest, American Health, Modern Medicine and Reuters-Global. U.S. Government clients include the Atomic Energy Commission, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Department of Homeland Security. While he was editor and publisher of a west coast Florida newspaper, voter participation in covered precincts was twice that of the rest of the city. And a New York television special he promoted generated such a response, the outsourced call center's phone system crashed. The Half-Life of Carson Hood is his first novel.