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"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life." -- James Allen

Garden of Heaven is making the rounds of prospective publishers where--in one universe or another--it will be published with due care.

Readers of The Sun Singer will find several familiar characters. However, Garden of Heaven is neither a prequel nor a sequel to The Sun Singer. Both novels are mythic fiction that roughly follows the hero path theme popularized by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

While I make no claims here about the book's literary merit, it changed my life during the 15 years in which it was under construction. If you ask them, those who know me will candidly tell you that enroute to the final word, I swung like an inferior pendulum beween manic lunancy and near-suicidal despair while creating, and to some extent, living this story.

Should the gods consent to fling this novel throughout the universe, it may change your life, too. Only a fool would promise your transformation, if any, will be easy, but I can say that if you conclude that Garden of Heaven is true, you will know why all there is, is light. I trust that will suffice.