When I wrote Catherine’s Pascha, I had not heard of Tekla’s Easter, which is long out of print. And of course, when I wrote Catherine’s Pascha, it would be many years before Lisa Bullard would write Emma’s Easter. (Although I wrote my story first, she published first....
Have you ever noticed how few bathrooms there are in sci-fi stories, and how few churches there are in children’s picture books? I can’t tell you where to find a toilet on a space ship. But I can tell you where to find a church: It’s right there, at the very...