Bea Oertel started trying her hand at creative writing while attending a teacher’s training program at university. After writing short stories and pieces of travel writing, she embarked on the ambitious project of writing a science fiction novel when recent world events happened that felt like the beginnings of a darker time in history. The experience of growing government overreach, censorship and the isolation of certain people groups created an eerie foreboding of a dystopian future in the author.  The first scene of The Warehouse came to her in a dream, in which she was the protagonist, Kim, and felt all her intense emotions of abandonment, loneliness and fear.

 Bea’s daytime job is teaching writing at a private college. In her spare time, when she is not writing dystopian novels, Bea is found camping and hiking all over B.C. with her trusty four-legged companion. 

Good news to those who are following the characters in The Warehouse: The sequel, The Battle for Eden, is finished and has been sent off to the publisher! Follow the journeys of Kim, Christina, Arlon, Vilna and Leonard. Meet quirky and troubled teen Ben and his new girlfriend Suzanne and witness the growth of their relationship amongst war and hardship. Watch how the Eden community rallies together to defend themselves from the onslaught of the evil government which sends borgs and rockets to annihilate them. Some of the characters will pay the ultimate price to defend freedom; some of them will survive to rebuild the community and carry on the battle.