Hell's Postulate

by Lia Declan

269 pages, Paperback

Published August 27, 2025

About the author

Lia Declan is a transgender mythic fiction writer, queer romanticist, and ritual designer whose work initiates readers into sovereign longing, emotional labor, and the reversal of canonical myths. As co-owner of Stargazer’s Book Nook, Lia curates literary thresholds that honor erased truths and celebrate queer imagination.
Her stories—rooted in LGBTQ+ experience, fantasy, and poetic structure—reclaim mythic archetypes through emotionally authentic, often romantic, reversals. Her debut novel, Chosen By Winter, explores misrecognition and ritual love through epic cadence and sovereign myth. She is currently developing a lesbian romance set in 1797 Belfast, where longing, power, and ritual initiation unfold between Brid and Aisling.
Lia holds a doctorate in theology and postgraduate degrees in grammar and classical literature. Her scholarship informs her mythic grammar, poetic cadence, and ritual pedagogy, allowing her to teach mythic narrative to students age 16+ with exacting care and emotional depth. Every flyer, author page, and public invocation she creates is a sacred act—ritualized, refined, and uncompromising in its mythic and queer intent.
As a transgender woman, Lia’s work embodies the transformative power of recognition, reversal, and reclamation—inviting readers into stories where truth is sovereign, love is ritual, and identity is mythic.