Sweet Heavenly Daze is not just another book about heaven. It is a book about the heaven we all dream of, hope toward, and pray for. Many fear this heaven may not exist. But it does. It's the heaven we cherish in our hearts.

Barry Wilcox, following his sudden death on the golf course, arrives on a forlorn rainy street in the first level of heaven, in an area the locals call, "The Bottoms." Shocked, bewildered, and completely out of his depth, he is assigned a spiritual guide, who happens to be a famous artist. In the company of five other new arrivals he begins a journey toward "Downtown." He comes into contact with an assortment of the Afterlife's resident characters (The archangel Uriel with his baseball fetish, Mary Magdalen who presides over a house of healing, and St. Peter in a Bowler, among others) who turn out to be not at all what he expected.

Along their way the travelers fight and weep together, confess and squabble, have their hearts healed, and at last discover their own unique destiny among the vast array of heavenly possibilities.

Sweet Heavenly Daze is about grief and loss, confession and absolution, the limitations of psychiatry and the therapeutic arts, the reality of evil, baseball, the religious origin of dreams, and the healing power of music.

This is a lighthearted, witty, profound, and poignant glimpse of a never-before-seen heaven, a view at odds with popular religion, but a view to challenge and warm the careful reader.

This is a book for those who know their place in heaven is secure, and, more importantly, for those who fear they may have already lost their chance to take a seat with the heavenly host.

- John Earp, Author