HISTORY · BIBLICAL INQUIRY · CULTURE · TAX LAW
Each project begins with a different object: a painting, an omitted figure, an instrument ledger, a gift, a tax election. The method changes because the evidence changes.
Nonfiction does not inherit the whole portrait. It receives objects, columns, marginal marks, and the obligation to say what kind of claim each record can support.
FIVE PROJECTS · DISTINCT SOURCES
The symbols in this field are not decorative tokens. Each opens the project whose evidence it names.
ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY · ENGLISH / GERMAN
Religion, Art and Modern Europe. A biography of artistic freedom and the lives that sustain it.
The paintings return through changing questions of belief, labor, money, form, and preservation. Maria Marc’s own work and judgment shape the account of a shared life.
Evidence
Paintings, letters, editions, and collection records.
Publisher
Kunstdorf Verlag.
Status
English and German editions in preparation. Review copies on request.
LITERARY BIBLICAL CRITICISM · AGENT-READY
A lateral reading of sacred narrative from the position of the figures it requires, uses, and refuses to see.
The approximately 90,000-word substantive revision distinguishes textual observation, scholarly account, original synthesis, and speculative proposal. It introduces an agency continuum and follows how a story becomes a structure without treating every received interpretation as equally authorized.
Human question
What happens to the person after the recognized story has used her?
Evidence
Texts, traditions, counter-voices, interpretive histories, structural repetition.
Status
Complete manuscript ready for professional review.
ECONOMIC / BUSINESS HISTORY · IN PROGRESS
When Time Stopped Behaving Like Money. An economic history of authority, credit, legitimacy, succession, and nineteenth-century American piano manufacture.
The study draws upon Chickering production registers, a large private advertising corpus, William Steinway’s diary, and C. H. W. Foster’s working papers. International expositions become all-pay tournaments; succession becomes a governance trap; advertising becomes evidence rather than illustration.
Human question
What happens when inherited authority outlives the governance structure that made it credible?
Evidence
Serial registers, advertisements, correspondence, diaries, corporate and exposition records.
Method
European intellectual history, game theory, business history, and close object reading.
CULTURAL NONFICTION · IN DEVELOPMENT
A gift can be freely offered and still arrive carrying a price no recipient agreed to pay.
This developing book examines what gifts carry besides the object itself: value, obligation, intimacy, memory, status, timing, social performance, and the possibility of giving badly while meaning well.
Human question
When does generosity create relation, and when does it claim jurisdiction over the recipient?
Evidence
Objects, occasions, family stories, market prices, rituals, etiquette, and memory.
Status
Concept and chapter architecture in development.
TAX LAW / PRACTITIONER REFERENCE · SUBSTANTIAL MANUSCRIPT
The sale of a home is not one transaction. It is an intersection of ownership, use, marriage, divorce, inheritance, depreciation, time, benefits, and reporting.
The manuscript covers the home-sale exclusion, partial exclusions, basis, depreciation recapture, nonqualified use, mixed use, divorce, inheritance, installment sales, §1031 interactions, forms, reporting, audit defense, and planning. It follows gain through the AGI cascade, including Social Security taxation under §86, Medicare IRMAA, NIIT, passive-loss limits, and premium-tax-credit consequences.
Human question
What does a tax system do to a home after life has already changed its legal and economic meaning?
Evidence
Code, regulations, cases, forms, elections, timelines, computations, and documentary substantiation.
Perspective
Written by an IRS Enrolled Agent with two decades of representation experience.
A number without its measurement context is not yet a fact. It is a claim waiting to be misread.Across the nonfiction practice
PUBLISHING · SCHOLARLY · PROFESSIONAL
Proposals, sample chapters, complete or partial manuscripts, source notes, research summaries, and professional materials are available as appropriate to each project’s status.