Christopher Laney

Christopher Laney is the author of Flying Colors, a novel that six-time New York Times bestselling author John Hart called “richly told and impossibly vibrant.”

It’s the story of a man who has spent years building the life he thought he wanted—until a forgotten grass airfield and an old flight instructor draw him back to his childhood love of flying, and to a part of himself he thought he’d outgrown. But summers end, and what he finds there will ask him to reconsider what he’s willing to believe, and what he’s willing to change.

A pilot and longtime magazine feature writer, Chris writes about the questions we ask, the choices we make, and the moments that can change the course of a life. For seventeen years, he has published Dare to Soar, his essays on purpose, second chances, the pull of forgotten dreams, and the quiet magic hiding in ordinary life. Across his fiction and essays runs one invitation: slow down, look closer, and remember what once made you feel alive.

Chris lives in North Carolina, where he is at work on his next novel.