Alan Chin

Alan Chin enjoyed a twenty-year career, working his way from computer programmer to Director of Software Engineering, but he lost interest in computer science when he began writing fiction. He walked away from corporate America in 1999, and since then has traveled to over fifty countries, scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, tracked black rhino in the Serengeti, walked the five-hundred-and-fifty-mile Camino de Santiago across Spain, and dined in most of the capitals of Europe and Asia. Oh yes, and he's published nine gay-themed novels and two screenplays.In 2007, QBliss magazine awarded their Pride in Literature award to Alan for his debut novel, Island Song. In 2010, Alan's novel The Lonely War swept the Rainbow Literary Awards, taking top honors in four categories: Best Fiction, Best Historical, Best Characters, and Best Setting. A year later, the Rainbow Literary Awards granted Alan's third novel, Match Maker, the Best Contemporary Fiction award. Alan's novel The Plain of Bitter Honey was a finalist in the 2013 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year awards.Alan currently spends half of the year traveling the globe and the other half writing at his home in Palm Springs, California.Website: alanchinauthor.comBlog: alanchinwriter.blogspot.comEmail: alanhchin@aol.com