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At the age seven, his divorced, working mother sent him to a creative writing program at the
local library. From this tender age he knew that he wanted to be an author. In
High School, Marsha Stewart, his creative writing teacher, coached him to a first-place tie at
the UW-Whitewater Literary contest, where hundreds of students from three states competed.
His thirty-three years of life since then have been filled with the tough times and tragedies
necessary to torture a serious writer's soul. He dropped out of college to elope. He worked no
job that paid more than $8.50/hour until 1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he lived as a hedonist
until his mid-twenties. It was then that a friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical
Philosopher, Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but Schaeffer's application
of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere of morality changed Mr. Creed forever.
His reading-list suddenly launched into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan. Her soul at
stake, Mr. Creed entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest. During this time,
he volunteered an article to the Grotto's desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After
publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded to his work.
In the years that followed, Mr Creed debated a variety of worldviews on internet discussion
boards, and has since then, found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological
arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-on collision that broke him in half
and induced a severe closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two weeks, it was
the doctors opinion that with years of therapy, Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of
his mental capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank Creed awoke the next morning his
delusional state had been healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair
by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him in his profession as an auto-
worker at Subaru of Indiana automotive. Unfortunately, when the recession in 2008 struck, the
expense of Frank's disabilities put him on Subaru's attrition-list and he turned to a full-time
writing career.
Frank Creed is the head critiquer at TheFinishers.biz, a premier manuscript evaluation service,
as well as novelist, speaker, and workshop presenter. With his usual positive attitude, Frank
sees his job loss as His way of directing Frank's life.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have refined him as a writer, but the closed
head injury was a blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he’d begun his fantasy novella
White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-accident, everything flowed. The course
of his life at that moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has been profound. How’s
this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men. However, I have a twelfth grade education
and am self-educated. It took re-reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts.
I looked again at Lewis’ high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
Frank Creed
local library. From this tender age he knew that he wanted to be an author. In
High School, Marsha Stewart, his creative writing teacher, coached him to a first-place tie at
the UW-Whitewater Literary contest, where hundreds of students from three states competed.
His thirty-three years of life since then have been filled with the tough times and tragedies
necessary to torture a serious writer's soul. He dropped out of college to elope. He worked no
job that paid more than $8.50/hour until 1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he lived as a hedonist
until his mid-twenties. It was then that a friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical
Philosopher, Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but Schaeffer's application
of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere of morality changed Mr. Creed forever.
His reading-list suddenly launched into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan. Her soul at
stake, Mr. Creed entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest. During this time,
he volunteered an article to the Grotto's desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After
publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded to his work.
In the years that followed, Mr Creed debated a variety of worldviews on internet discussion
boards, and has since then, found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological
arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-on collision that broke him in half
and induced a severe closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two weeks, it was
the doctors opinion that with years of therapy, Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of
his mental capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank Creed awoke the next morning his
delusional state had been healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair
by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him in his profession as an auto-
worker at Subaru of Indiana automotive. Unfortunately, when the recession in 2008 struck, the
expense of Frank's disabilities put him on Subaru's attrition-list and he turned to a full-time
writing career.
Frank Creed is the head critiquer at TheFinishers.biz, a premier manuscript evaluation service,
as well as novelist, speaker, and workshop presenter. With his usual positive attitude, Frank
sees his job loss as His way of directing Frank's life.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have refined him as a writer, but the closed
head injury was a blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he’d begun his fantasy novella
White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-accident, everything flowed. The course
of his life at that moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has been profound. How’s
this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men. However, I have a twelfth grade education
and am self-educated. It took re-reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts.
I looked again at Lewis’ high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
Frank Creed
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published in Tales for the Thrifty Barbarian: An Anthology of High Fantasy and three short stories in Light at the Edge of Darkness. His Christian cyberpunk
novel Flashpoint will be released in September 2007. Frank is also founder of "Project Underground, a cooperative multi-artistic venture using the setting
of Flashpoint. An avid fan of sci-fi and fantasy, Speculative Fiction is the vehicle that Frank uses to deliver his beliefs and spiritual philosophy to readers.
This "Lost Genre" remains very controversial in the Christian Fundamentalist community and Frank Creed and other authors of Christian Speculative Fiction
are the new kids on the block. They will likely spread the Christian message to a greater number of people because they are willing to follow His voice
and use the gifts He has given. To this end, Frank has created the "Lost Genre Guild" an organization to help promote Biblical speculative fiction and assist
fans in locating the best in the genre."
Editor,
The Writers' Cafe Press
novel Flashpoint will be released in September 2007. Frank is also founder of "Project Underground, a cooperative multi-artistic venture using the setting
of Flashpoint. An avid fan of sci-fi and fantasy, Speculative Fiction is the vehicle that Frank uses to deliver his beliefs and spiritual philosophy to readers.
This "Lost Genre" remains very controversial in the Christian Fundamentalist community and Frank Creed and other authors of Christian Speculative Fiction
are the new kids on the block. They will likely spread the Christian message to a greater number of people because they are willing to follow His voice
and use the gifts He has given. To this end, Frank has created the "Lost Genre Guild" an organization to help promote Biblical speculative fiction and assist
fans in locating the best in the genre."
Editor,
The Writers' Cafe Press
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