“The thing I write will be the thing I write.”
C. G. (Chris) Bauer wouldn’t trade his northeast Philly upbringing of street sports played on blacktop and concrete, fist fights, brick and stone row houses, and twelve years of well-intentioned Catholic school discipline for a Philadelphia minute (think New York but more fickle and less forgiving). Chris has written and lived in multiple states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Pennsylvania (he’s quite the bad penny), plus determined, inspired, confused and euphoric, yet always sober. And contrary to popular belief he harbors no ill will toward the city of Pittsburgh though statements by some of his characters may seem to indicate otherwise. The author has also been accurately assessed as having way too many right-brain tendencies for his left-brain corporate day job. Married with two lovely, incredible adult daughters, Chris now lives in Doylestown, PA with his equally lovely wife Terry and their supermutt Rory. The author’s short fiction will appear in the crime fiction ezine DEMOLITION (Fall 2008 issue) and has been recognized by the National Writers Association, the Writers Room of Bucks County and the Maryland Writers Association. A portion of the sale of each copy of Scars on the Face of God: The Devil’s Bible (author’s debut novel, Drollerie Press, late 2008) will go to St. Vincent’s Home in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, at one time an orphanage and now an emergency shelter for children.
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Quote from the unnamed narrator in Chance, a novel by Steve Shilstone, Breakaway Books. Photo courtesy of Jillian Bauer.
