EARLY YEARS: Hometown father describes healing from the loss of a child, through writing

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Losing a baby is an unimaginable loss.

Roanoke author, Rick Kiser channeled his own loss into a book titled “Forever My Son: A Novel”.

Kiser says his and his wife’s first child was stillborn, and he went through a hard time afterward.

He’s read books about child loss from a mother’s perspective but never from a dad who had experienced it.

“I felt I needed to be the one to write a book, a dad’s perspective of losing a child,” he says.

Even though the novel is about a fictional couple, Kiser says the emotions in it are real.

Kiser has also written a children’s book series featuring car characters titled, “Carly and Friends.”

If you’d like to reach out to Kiser about his books, you can email him here: rickellyk@gmail.com