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Love debates on religion. My book is about the End Times in Revelation, so it has a mostly Catholic bent, but I may want to expand into Judaism and Islam in the next book. It would be an enormous undertaking to learn about those religions, so I haven't decided yet. That would be for books two and three. Book one is largely focused on Catholicism, although Connor visits Israel for a pilgrimage to follow in Jesus's footsteps.

Just checked out your posting. I strongly recommend that you post for points if you want the most number of reviewers.  Some of us have enough points to last until the next age of Middle Earth, but many need to earn points to publish their own work.

The primary target audience is Catholics. If I can entice other Christians or thrillers readers, so much the better. If it was for a general audience, there'd be far less praying and probably more violence (like Angels & Demons by Dan Brown). As it is, I'll be killing four cardinals, which is bad, but is necessary for the story. Besides the dead gravedigger, I'm hoping to have few other deaths, but I'm not sure yet.

Nuts. Several folks on my Catholic forum tell me that demons possess only the body of a person and that the soul is freed when the body dies, unless the possessed person willingly accepts the devil. That screws up my scene where Connor saves the reverend mother's soul just before her deathbed warning and physical death. Not sure how to fix that. I suppose she could be possessed to keep her from giving Connor her warning before she dies. Perhaps she learns of the warning through prayer and tells her fellow nuns that she needs to find Connor (or Constantino), whoever he is, then becomes possessed.

Someone built an igloo in Calgary and listed it on Airbnb. :-)

No, just me not using a chapter checklist yet. If I don't write it down and read it every chapter, I forget to do it. Same goes for Antonio Beneventi haunting Romano for the rest of the book. I once forgot to put God in one of the Galaxy Tales chapters. :-)

The haunting may grow old very quickly, like De Rosa's constant itching/scratching.

Gravedigger chase is up. I had a little fun with it. Makes the scene about a page longer.

Thanks for the suggestion, Kdot.

I think you missed one of my posts above. It's unlikely to appear in the books, but I want an explanation for myself so that I have a set of rules to follow for consistency throughout the trilogy. My proposed rules also led to the discovery that one could have two demon-spawns each pass their demon chromosome to an offspring, probably making their child even more powerful than the parents. I don't see a use for that in the trilogy as envisioned, but it's within the rules should I care to explore it.

I may never use the demon-science in the books, but I'd like to have my own explanation beyond hand waving. Basic elements: a female human, a demon father, a tussle under the sheets, and a fetus that develops normally, but harbors something from the father that gives it demonic powers. Chromosomes and genes seem like the ideal solution. So much is unknown about our genes, it's a reasonable place to encode for superpowers.

In the Omen, Damien's blood cells matched those of a jackal, which was his mother. I assume the father was Satan.

Hmm. I need a demon in human form to impregnate a woman in my story. I set it up in the exorcism chapter by giving the chief exorcist a complete human body, including on the inside. That means he has bodily fluids, including blood and semen. The tricky part is whose DNA does a demon carry? There has to be a male chromosome since the offspring will be male. It's not enough for the demon to possess a male body and use his DNA for that purpose. I need the offspring to be part demon. That's how the child will inherit demonic powers.

Suggestions?

Thanks
Dirk

We finally agree on something. :-)