Christopher Lynn Carter was born in Oklahoma City in 1958. He is the youngest of four children. His father was a World War II veteran also from Oklahoma who had returned home after the war ended with his new wife to raise a family.

It was there that Chris attended elementary and junior high school, later on to graduate from Midwest City High School. He was very active as a student and an athlete, prefering football above all his other athletic pursuits. He was asked to serve as class president twice and did so his Junior and Senior years in high school.

It was there that he met his childhood sweatheart, Wanda. They dated, fell in love and got married in 1978. Chris finished college, studying Electronic Technology and after graduation began working in the then emerging Information Technology business. He and Wanda had three children together. During the years that followed while raising his family, Chris was involved in his community and in helping others including several years doing short term missions and relief work in the Nation of Haiti.

Learning to play guitar at age twelve and his love of music had led Chris to pursue electronics in college hoping that a familiarity in the recording studio would open doors musically. He started writing songs at age sixteen finding a deep satisfaction in prose combined with music. He became an accomplished guitarist and later added piano to his abilities finding it a stonger instrument with which to write when more complicated arranging was required.

He is now a published songwriter with selected songs and orchestrations that have played in both the United States and Europe on cable and in syndication. (DSM Producers - Music Library Contributor, 1995), (SCi-Fi channel's - Space Above And Beyond, writing credit).  

It seems no life is lived long without its share of difficulties. Chris moved his family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1998 after years of working and realizing to advance artisically he'd have to go to L.A. or Nashville. Upon arriving and after securing one of many technology contracts for his consulting business his wife succumbed to alcholism. She'd been addicted to pain killers as a nurse, and as addicts often do she'd hid the ailment from her family. The years that followed were difficult for everyone with her hospitalization and attempts at recovery. Finally, the 22 year marriage ended and Chris took his three young children to finish raising by himself. The experience, though tragic, made him stronger and uniquely qualified to speak to this terrible affliction impacting both the addicted and the family members.

Chris is a successful entrepenuer, businessman, author and inventor. He has consulted with major Fortune 500 companies in areas of their Information Technology and has designed and built major software systems for corporate business. He is also an accomplished pilot. Between 2006 and 2008 he built a 200 m.p.h. experimental aircraft in his private workshop before getting his FAA pilot certification. He then trained in that very same aircraft with an instructor and after completing his final examination, flew it solo from Nashville to Phoenix and back in 2009. Chris doesn't believe in the "no win senario". His mentor, Dr. Edwin Louis Cole once said, "If you let someone else create your world for you, they will always create it too small". Chris has never believed he could not write and publish books, compose and publish music, design and build recording studios, an experimental aircraft or software systems that run in Fortune 500 companies. "It's a matter of self determination and being willing to apply yourself", he says. He often teases himself about being a weired "right brain/left brain" functionite but then reconciles that "people are most content when they follow their inspiration".

Chris has returned to creative writing and public speaking, something he'd done since high school. His call as a community leader, spokes person and mentor re-emerged in his life. His first full length Novel, 'The Legend Of Evil' is published and he is currently writing on 'The Autumn List' with several more titles on his dockett. Discovering early in life that "people love to hear stories", Chris has sought to communicate the human experience in both his writing, public speaking and music.