I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can start this blog. Rather than bore you with the details of assembling this site, let me just say…it is most certainly still under construction. Some things are due to be updated (such as the “about the story” page), and others to be created, but I’ll let you know when those are done.

In the meantime, I thought it best to start with a brief mission statement, not only for this site, and the books I’m working on, but also the whole idea of why I’m writing at all.

I’m blaming the children. I have two of them, you see, and they both love to read. Voracious, I believe is the word. They got that from their parents, so it’s partly my fault. But now both are getting to that age where they’ve moved beyond the kids books, but aren’t quite ready for the full-out modern novel, with its adult themes. Whenever we go into a bookstore, I’m always looking around for what would be good for them to read. And what do I see?

Vampire books. Wizard books. My-Date-With-A-Teenage-Zombie books. Everything dark and twisted and scary. “Forbidden Fruit Tastes the Best,” seems to be the current theme.

My knee-jerk reaction was…we should fix that. We should have more books emphasizing the benefits of good choices, the beauty of the light, and the view of the world that says there is a God, and He still cares for us very much.

More than a year later, my reaction is the same. We still need positive alternatives to the fiction presented to our teens and tweens. Which is why I’m writing books, and have spent the last nine months or so crafting a new adventure that I hope will appeal to my kids, and possibly other kids out there, who need to be reminded that God is still there, and He still cares.

That is my mission–my raison d’être–to provide teens with good stories, based on a Biblical worldview, that affirm the light. Phil. 4:8