Celestial Politics: When Heaven Has a Bureaucracy

Celestial Politics: When Heaven Has a Bureaucracy

It is comforting to imagine Heaven as a place beyond administration. No queues, no forms, no deliberation, no argument. Pure light, pure chorus, pure certainty. The trouble with comfort is that it asks to be believed, not examined. The Beatrice Chronicles does not...
2021 The First Spark of the Beatrice Chronicles

2021 The First Spark of the Beatrice Chronicles

I can trace The Beatrice Chronicles back to 2021, but not to a neat lightning bolt moment. It was more like pressure building, a set of questions that would not leave me alone, and a sense that I wanted to write a story with sacred architecture in its bones...
A Universe on the Brink of Transformation

A Universe on the Brink of Transformation

The Beatrice Chronicles There are worlds that end with fire, and worlds that end with silence. There are stories that build towards a single final battle, a bright line drawn across the page. But The Beatrice Chronicles opens its doors on a different kind of...