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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 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

 Who is Frank?

 Frank Creed is a novelist of Christian speculative fiction. His favorite sub-genre to write in is Christian cyber-punk!              

 Frank's shorter fiction has been published in anthologies as well as e-zines.

 Frank Creed is the founder of the Lost Genre Guild, an online group of writers, artists and fans of Christian speculative fiction.

"For thousands of years humanity has been trying our own solutions.Yet in the 21st century we still ask, why does each of us see ourselves as meaningful?

What's the value of a single life?

Does truth exist? Does right and wrong exist?

The Bible gives earthquake answers to the big questions of our time.

In this day of the American empire-in-decline, we need role-models that live their faith with their lives, not just their lips."