——— THE ETERNAL HERALD ✦ PARADISE CITY ———
The Christmas story you've never seen — told by the angel who was there.
The Herald Angel
A Fair Dinkum Christmas Story in Prose
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The carol sang it for 300 years.
Nobody told his story.
"Hark! The HERALD Angels Sing."
Herald. That's not just any angel — that's a reporter. A journalist. A meticulous, skeptical, deeply particular documenter of facts.
Mark is the smallest angel in Paradise City. He counts sidewalk cracks (all 279 of them). He sharpens his pencils to exacting precision. He considers singing neither fair nor square dinkum. And he wants absolutely nothing to do with Earth.
Then his editor sends him to Bethlehem. And everything he thought he knew about the universe — and himself — is about to change.
✏️ "Fair dinkum. Fair dinkum, indeed." — M.
Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
— EPHESIANS 3:10 ✦ THE MESSAGE
HIS WEAPON
Yellow No. 2 Pencil
HIS TREASURE
Purple Galaxy Bowtie
HIS BEAT
The Eternal Herald
HIS PROBLEM
He doesn't sing. Yet.
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"For the first time in Mark's existence, he was not lost in the expanses of his head. He was deeply and profoundly present in the moment, taking it all in."
— MARK! THE HERALD ANGEL, CHAPTER 5
INSIDE THE BOOK
Five Chapters.
One Story That Changes Everything.
Another Day in Paradise
1
Mark finishes what he's certain is his finest story yet. He boards the express bus to the Eternal Herald. He imagines parades in his honor. He is about to be very wrong.
The Big Assignment
2
The Chief Editor doesn't even look up. Something enormous is breaking — in the last place Mark wants to go. He is handed an itinerary. One word: Earth.
Home at Last
3
Mark wallows in discouragement, counts his sidewalk cracks, makes warm milk and honey, and reads evening reports of mysterious glowing rings appearing around certain angels.
Into the Shadows
4
His galaxy purple bowtie. A chance encounter with Archangel Gabriel at the train station. Mark boards the southbound train departing from Glory and takes his first steps into Earth.
A Song to Sing
5
Time stands still. A stable in Bethlehem. A newborn King. Every pencil gone. Nothing left to give — except one purple bowtie and, for the very first time, a song.
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THE HERALD'S GIFT SHOP
Give the Gift of
Fair Dinkum Christmas
MARK'S GIFT
Start a New
Christmas Tradition.
In the story, Mark ties his purple bowtie to his golden halo and hangs it on a small evergreen shrub near the manger — his gift to the newborn King.
Read MARK! aloud as a family on Christmas Eve.
Hang a gold ring with purple ribbon on your Christmas tree.
Share #MarksGift
and pass the tradition on.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
Fair Dinkum
Five Stars
"We read this aloud as a family on Christmas Eve and every single person was in tears by the end. Mark losing his pencils one by one — and then the bowtie moment — I was not prepared. This is our tradition now."
–FAMILY READER, MINNESOTA
–PASTOR, MIDWEST
"I've been in ministry for 25 years and I've never seen a fresh angle on the nativity that worked this well for both children and adults simultaneously. Ordered 30 copies for our Advent series."
"The concept is genius. The carol has been sung for 300 years and nobody thought to ask who the Herald Angel actually was. Glenn Fletcher did. And the answer is wonderful."
–CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE OWNER
