Welcome

Hello and welcome!
I am Clayton Chancey, a Christian fiction author.
I consider writing an act of worship.
"Worship?" You say. Yes.
Worship is an act that must consume our lives. Every action, word, intent, every though needs to be worshipful. The purpose, the chief end of writing is synonymous with the purpose of life. Worship. It all boils down to this beautiful, pure concept. We can barely wrap our minds around it, and that's part of what makes it so breathtaking. When you are facedown before your God, breathing of His love, crying tears that are not your own. That's what it's all about. THAT, my friends - that is life. When you devote your whole being to the glorification of God, you will come to the rapturing realization: There IS life before death.
And that is the purpose and drive behind writing to God's glory.

Now that I've hopefully established my priorities, I'll tell you a bit about myself and my writing. I write fiction. This word, this concept...FICTION, is commonly misinterpreted. It is taken to mean: "not truth". This notion is absurd. Fiction can, and often is, far more real that nonfiction. It evokes emotion, truth, and thought like no other medium on the earth. Our Lord used parables as tools of truth during His public ministry. Why?
Because fiction has ways of taking a complex thing, and making it easy-to-understand, riveting, and yet still maintains the deep, mind-blowing epicity of the thing. That's why it's so suited to Christians. While it might seem like preaching to the choir, fiction written by Christians, TO Christians has the ability to rip through the many layers of hypocricy we often put on. It immerses us into a literary world where our everyday lives don't matter, and then it pummels us with truth. Simply because we are exposed. We are being assaulted with truth every time we step inside the door of a church, but we are so steeled to the truth, that we simply don't care. Fiction shreds our shield, and cuts through to the heart. It is a tool that is implemented often in the Bible.
As a writer, I certainly don't take that lightly.
I write suspense. Thrill-rides laced with adrenalene and edge-of-your-seat suspense. It keeps you interested, keeps you immersed in the world of desperate characters who take desperate measures to aid desperate causes. A world immersed in desperation. CIA coverups, asylum psychos, prophetic murderers...this stuff is riveting. As a reader, you're opening up a suspense novel, but as a soul, you're drinking of the beautiful truth of God.