Thanks for sending me your typescript. I'm sure I'll want to read it once it's published, if for no other reason than to know what to expect from any book reviewers or journalists who come calling. But I don't think it would help you in the least for me to tell you what I think about the work itself. I'm simply not part of your target audience. I already know this material quite thoroughly, and many of my reactions to your presentation would be various sorts of irritation or even boredom. You don't need that.

This doesn't mean I disapprove of your book. Quite the contrary. I want every kind of writer, with every sort of educational and intellectual qualifications and addressing every conceivable literary market, to write about Paul. I can't wait until the first children's books about polarity make it past the corporate censors who routinely suppress unconventional ideas. But I won't be advising those authors either.

Just remember that your book doesn't need to be perfectly consonant with what Paul says. But it does have to reflect what you honestly think. You will write well and convincingly only about what you know to be true from having lived it all these years. Don't write for historians who, a century from now, will gleefully catalog your deviations from official canon. Write for young people just starting out who need to be turned away from trying to be what they're not. That's how you can help people.