Paul's Comments

Around August, 2002 I got this idea for a story, about a man who dies and winds up in an afterlife which is somewhat similar to our own but with a few twists. The name of the book is In the Matter of: Instrument of God.

I've been working on it since. Things have happened including working on other things, being busy and so on and so forth. I was down to needing to finish one scene that I was putting off. Finally, I got stuck on a programming project I'm working on that was so unpleasant that I used finishing my book as an excuse to put it off.

So now it's finished. I need to change a couple items, about one page near the end to make a part of the story funnier, but it's done; I've tied all the loose ends together. It will probably end up being two books because it's about 750 pages.

Now I have to go on to the other book, tentatively called Willis and Friends which got created when I was writing an intermediate chapter of Instrument but then realized it worked better split off as a separate book. That one is currently about 175 pages.

This was not my first book. That one I wrote about 12 years ago, called The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts, is a full book, about 350 pages, and if I ever finish all of the interconnected story, is two more books.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get them published.