Success, as measured in tear drops...

The Chronicle, Stephen, was a success!

And how exactly do I measure success?

In tears of course. Well, okay, maybe not completely in tears. It's not my goal to get anyone to cry, but it helps when I am writing emotionally charged stories of life and death as in Unseen.

When my reader gets misty, or even sheds a tear, I mark that as success! Because I cry when I write them, if you don't cry when you read them, something is way off.

Not all my writings are measured in tears though, so don't run away yet. I am mainly a fantasy writer, with a side project of emotion.

The Unseen Chronicles are based on true stories of triumph, joy, overcoming, death, and life; written from an Unseen perspective.

Yes, they are fiction, but are they really? That is the part that really gets to some people. Those of us who believe in something bigger then ourselves know there are Unseen things happening all around us and at every turn.

The best complement I have received, thus far, after someone read the first Chronicle: "Very Frank Peretti-ish! Thick with emotion. I felt like I was there."

I am about 3/4ths done with Chronicle Three, Zahalon, the story of a woman who got to visit the "hereafter" to see the joy and help her with grief.

Chronicle Two, Stephen, is about a girl named Jessa with Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy.

And Ishmael, the Chronicle that started it all, is about my nephew, William, and the Unseen battle that waged the day he was born.

I have decided I will have around fifteen Chronicles when the novel is complete, so I am looking for some more Unseen situations to write about. I have two in mind right now, but that only gets me to five... so ten more need to drop out of the sky somewhere... quite literally so.