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BJ Bell

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BJ Bell is the author of Karma Ledger, the first novel in The Kalachakra IP — a cyberpunk series set in a surveilled near-future where community and spiritual practice become quiet forms of resistance.

A writer, coder, and analyst, Bell came to fiction the long way around: through a formal education in philosophy and anthropology, a lifelong love of technology, and a career spent in contact centers and analytics, reading the patterns in how people behave at scale. That range shows up on the page — his work is equally at home with large systems and small, human moments.

He co-founded Inbound Books, an author-first publishing cooperative built on the belief that the industry needs more collaboration and fewer gatekeepers. His essays on Buddhist ...more

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Karma Ledger: A Novel from the Kalachakra IP
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The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (Buddhism and Modernity)

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