Distantly related to Mary Shelley on her father's side, Charie is primarily known as a ghostwriter in the field of sports - mostly baseball. She has had at least one book go to #1 on Amazon in 2 different categories. Currently well on her way to establishing herself as an author in her own name, she has created a genre called Circuspunk (listed at Urban Dictionary) and a book of short stories in the genre called Bumping Noses and Cherry Pie was was the winner of the 2014 New Pulp Award for Best Collection .She also has a her first satirical book (or NYzarro as she calls it), Squid Whores of the Futon Fish Market coming out with JWK Fiction. She also has stories in the heavy metal anthology Axes of Evil, James Ward Kirk's Bones, Indiana Horror 2013 and Ugly Babies 2, In Vein for the benefit of St. Jude's Hospital, We Walk Invisible, a tribute to HG Wells' The Invisible Man". , Near Kin, a tribute anthology for Octavia Butler, Witches!, Ripple Effect for Hurricane Katrina relief, Surreal Grotesque,Oneiros Books CUT UP! (featuring a piece by Allen Ginsberg), All the Night-Tide, a Poe Steampunk anthology and other anthologies including the upcoming Terror Train which features a story by Poe and Stoker Award Winner William F. Nolan. She was September's featured writer at Solarcide. She is known for writing in many different genres from crime to satire and weird fiction to horror to contemporary fiction that is often based on current events. She even writes in erotica and Seussian. She is currently working on an erotic/horror piece in Circuspunk. She is most proud of working with an Iranian translator, translating Booker Man Award Winner Vernon God Little into Persian--which became a bestseller in Iran. Upcoming projects include just about anything--including the publication of six completed novels. A redhead with a redheaded attitude, she lives in NY with her mother and son and fur children Bailey Corwin, Babe Ruth and Casey Stengel where she is partial to shoes, the Yankees and naps.