Alan attended four years of night school at San Francisco State University, studying the field of Data Processing. Afterwards he enjoyed a twenty year career working his way from computer programmer, to software engineer, to network designer, and finally to manager of several software engineer development groups.
In 1991, while still working full time, Alan went back to night school and years later graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BS in Economics and a Masters in Creative Writing.
In 1999, Alan retired from his career in Information Technology to devote more time to his three hobbies: writing, traveling, and tennis. During that same timeframe, Alan legally changed his name to Alan Chin, so that he could share the same family name as his life partner, Herman Chin.
Alan turned
serious about his writing in 2003, and began working on
his first novel, Island Song. He has now published one
novel with Zumaya Publications - The Lonely War
(2009). He has Published three novels with Dreamspinner
Press - Island Song (2011), Match Maker (2010), and
Butterfly's Child (2010), and is currenly searching for
a producer to turn his two lgbt-themed screenplays into
movies.
In mid-2011,
Dreamspinner Press will publish Alan's first novella and
also one of Alan's short stories. Alan is currently
completing a fifth novel that he hopes to publish in
Fall 2011, as well as co-authoring two more screenplays.
Alan currently lives and writes half of each year at his home in northern California, and he spends the other half of each year traveling the globe.
You can learn more about Alan Chin and his writing at: http://AlanChinWriter.blogspot.com or about his travels at his travel blog: http://HermanAndAlan.blogspot.com