Chuck Miceli

I was born the son of a coal miner in Pittston Pennsylvania, one of eleven siblings. My earliest weather related memories involve trudging through snow up to my waist. I grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn New York where there was no place to put the snow when it fell, so the plows would make mountains of it at every street corner and we would use them for sledding and sliding along Atlantic Avenue. I now live in Southington, Connecticut with my wife Judy, where, for several seasons I worked as a Ski Ranger at Mt. Southington.

I’ve spent much of my professional career in criminal justice. At one time, I was the National Institute of Corrections Resource Center Coordinator for Connecticut and the Northeast. At another, I was the Chief of Curriculum at the Connecticut Justice Academy. After a thirty-plus year career in government, I left to begin a career in writing.

Much of my free time involves civic, social, and religious volunteer work. I am on the Leadership Council of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Connecticut Waterbury Campus. One of my most satisfying roles is Board Chairman for Every Dollar Feeds Kids (http://www.edfk.org), a non-profit organization that raises money to feed hungry children in the US and abroad.

My text, "Fire Behind Bars," (co-authored with Alton P. Golden), was the first book in the nation to deal with fires in secure institutions. For several years, I crisscrossed the country delivering programs on the book and on a wide variety of criminal and juvenile justice and professional development topics. I've never lost the bug for public speaking.

Amazon.com has just released my novel, “Amanda’s Room.” I completed the U.S. Power Squadron’s course on “Weather Systems and Forecasting for Mariners” and did extensive weather related research on the internet in the process of writing the book. Although it is a paranormal mystery, the book relies heavily on weather for its central premise. Each chapter begins with a weather related fact, which serves as a literal or metaphorical link to the contents of the chapter. My WordPress blog, “Something Significant Yet to Do,” addresses my views “On striving to live life large,” and includes articles on weather, philosophy (I have degrees in Criminal Justice and Philosophy) and the book.

More information on my various activities and writings can be found at the following:

Amazon Author’s Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/chuckmiceli

Blog: http://somethingsignificant.wordpress.com/

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmiceli

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmandasRoom

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CharlesMiceli

Smashwords Author’s Page: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ChuckMiceli

Smashwords Book Page (For additional eBook reader formats for Amanda’s Room): https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/131678

• The 1938 “Long Island Express” Hurricane
  While researching my novel, “Amanda’s Room,” I pondered the question, “What would it be like for New England to be threatened with a late-season category-five hurricane?”...
• Hangers: The Danger Lurking Above Us
  On October 29, 2011, those of us living in the northeast experienced a unique, and for some, deadly, event. That evening, several hours into the pre-Halloween storm, we huddled together in our homes, with...
• The Blizzard of 78'
  Responding to my blog about the blizzard of 69' my cousin Irene commented on another storm with particular meaning to both of us, the blizzard of 78'. It was just before that storm that Irene's father,...
• The Blizzard of 69'
  My wife and I returned to Brooklyn New York from our honeymoon in February 1969. I was a Staff Sargent in the Marine Corps Reserve and had recently finished my active duty. I was scheduled to begin my...

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