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4-10-25
Welcome Beta Readers,
Thank you for being a part of Astral Academy! I’m grateful you're here. Whether you’re reading as a fellow writer, a friend, or a reader just curious to peek behind the curtain, your thoughts and reactions help shape the final version of the book. This format allows us to move chapter by chapter—with no pressure to read the whole manuscript. You can participate whenever (& where ever) it feels right.
This Reading’s Premise:
Chapters 1–3: introduces us to Natasha Stepanov, inheritor of her late father’s mysterious legacy. Set in the near future, Natasha finds herself torn between corporate expectation and metaphysical inheritance. As she launches the Quantum Horizons Youth Program, we begin to glimpse that this is no ordinary summer intensive.
These chapters lay the foundation for the tension between science and spirit, introducing a skeptical team, curious students, and the pressure to prove the impossible: that the Astral Plane is real.
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