The Mind Behind the ChronoRift.

Kevo At the Last Light Inn with 2 friends

For years, I wanted to write.

I had ideas constantly. Stories would form in my head. Characters would appear. I'd imagine places that didn't exist and wonder what might happen there.

Sometimes I'd even start writing them.

And then I'd stop.

I'd put the idea aside, tell myself I'd come back to it, and eventually another idea would take its place. Pages, notes, beginnings of stories—they all seemed to end up in what I now think of as the wastebasket of procrastination.

There was always a reason not to write. Not enough time. Something else needed to be done. Tomorrow would be better.

Tomorrow became next week. Next week became next year.

And somewhere along the way, I realized I wasn't alone. A lot of people have something they've always dreamed of doing. Some keep postponing it until one day they realize they never did it at all.

I didn't want writing to become that for me.

So I finally stopped thinking about becoming a writer and started writing.

And something happened that I wish I'd discovered much earlier:

I loved it.

I loved creating the characters. I loved building the worlds. I loved figuring out how everything connected. I even learned to appreciate the rewrites, the mistakes, the ideas that didn't work, and the moments when I had to tear something apart and build it again.

Eventually, all those ideas that had spent years living inside my head began becoming something real.

They became ChronoRift Chronicles.

Now Curse of the Zodiac is no longer an idea I've been meaning to finish.

It's a book.

And I'm already building what comes next.

Sometimes I sit back, look at everything this universe has become, and ask myself the same question:

What took me so long?

I don't have a very good answer.

But I do know this:

I'm finally experiencing the dream instead of just dreaming about it.

And I'm loving every minute of it.

— Kevin Reilly