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   ABOUT CHARLIE STEEL  

COMMENTS BY CHARLIE:

Like a giant condor soaring high in the air, a good story should give the same thrill and feeling of
exuberance.   MY ONE GREAT DESIRE IS THAT ALL OF MY STORIES BE UPLIFTING TO THE READER.  

I suppose all writers have their own unique experiences that cause them to become authors.  
What contributed to my love of the written word and the  western genre, was the small hidden
library belonging to my father.  In it were the books that were in part compiled when my father
courted my mother and he gave her gifts of Zane Grey, James Oliver Curwood, Gene Stratton
Porter, Margaret Mitchell, and other such literature.  At age seven, I opened that built-in
cupboard.  I found inside the books' covers countless endearments  inscribed by my father to my
mother.  I then began reading those books, those gifts of love, and never stopped.  Those books
transformed me.  From that time of my childhood and into my adulthood, I never went anywhere
without a book.  

Another influence to becoming a writer started at age five (it was a small town in the fifties).  I
would walk down to the Saturday afternoon matinée.  For a quarter, and then later for fifty cents, I
watched Hop-along Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Randolph Scott, and so many others on
that large screen.  For me there were four worlds in my childhood.  One was the world of a book,
another was the world created on that screen on Saturday afternoons, the third was the magic of
forest and stream, and the fourth was real life.

Reality struck eventually.  There were many jobs before, during, and after college.  They ranged
from  working in a grocery store starting at ten years of age, to construction worker, to salvage
diver, to oil field worker, and government work behind the Iron curtain---AND, more than twenty
other different occupations.

I began writing at age twenty and, while attending college, I completed many short stories, two
plays, and a novel.  It took me eight years to finish my final degree.   I worked for the government
and raised a family and from time to time continued to write.  My closet shelves filled with
completed manuscripts, including many novels.  Eventually, I left work and moved to a large
ranch out west.  After thirty-five years my manuscripts fell into the hands of a publisher who
continues to edit and print that body of work.

    Some men dream and never live, others live and
    never dream. Charlie Steel put heart into
    countless  dreams and brought them to life just
    as he has done with the people in his tales.
    Charlie Steel has worked since early childhood
    and has held jobs that young men admire and
    old men envy. Steel has traveled widely, read
    voraciously, and has obtained five university
    degrees, including a Ph.D. He is the common
    man; he is the eccentric man. Hunting, fishing
    and the solitude of the outdoors are his great
    loves. This solitude provides him with the
    catalyst for many stories. Charlie Steel believes
    that what one tries to accomplish in life is as
    important as what one achieves.

    Publisher,  CONDOR PUBLISHING, INC
Charlie Steel--cowboy,
writer, and mystery man
Charlie reviews his
first published book.
Sage and Charlie
(Sage of Double DJ Ranch)
Plenty of time to write  
(Gene Autry Museum jail)
Member of the ReadWest Network
COWBOY ROUNDUP
Member of WESTERN WRITERS of AMERICA and ZANE GREY'S WEST SOCIETY
Everyone enjoys a western.

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