Author's Journey

In my first post, I shared what kind of stories I write and what readers can expect from them. This one is a bit more personal. It’s about why this story began at all—and why it took shape when it did. For a long time, writing fiction felt like something other people did. Not because creativity was absent from my life, but because it had always expressed itself in other forms. Creativity has long been part of both my father’s life and mine—through pencil sketches, woodworking

R.D. Smithson shares how a lifelong love of reading, a passion for storytelling, and a desire to craft clean, meaningful adventures led to the creation of Shadows Among the Peaks — and the journey that’s just beginning.