For a fundamentalist Christian who is dating the son of Satan, the question 'your place or mine' is somewhat complicated.

Bermudian writer Wallace Samuel Alexander Lee explores this strange relationship in his second self-published novel, 'Decisions' which is published under the pen name Samuel Alexander.

His first novel 'Destiny' was released last year and is being re-released along with Decisions, although the second book is not necessarily a sequel.

"Decisions is not really a carrying on from Destiny but it has its moments," said Mr. Lee. "Decisions is basically a twist is on your typical love story. My main character is half human. He has another half that is not so human. It is the son of Satan. He happens to fall in love with an amazing, wonderful Christian girl."

Mr. Lee said that in a strange way, dating the guy her parents would least like her to go out with, is actually a religious validation for the Christian.

"Before she just had to rely on faith that God and Satan exist," said Mr. Lee. "By actually meeting the son of Satan she can see for herself that they do exist."

He started writing Decisions as a way to relax from writing his first book.

"I can't seem to stay on one thing for a long time," said Mr. Lee. "During a certain phase I couldn't write anymore Destiny, so this popped into my head. I said, 'I wonder what would happen if I did this?'

"My writing routine is sporadic. That is the only way to describe it. Presently, I have to force myself to stop writing book number four, because book number three is not finished yet, and I have to finish it in order."

The location of Decisions is vague, but Mr. Lee said it is definitely not set in Bermuda, because there are shopping malls and cold weather in his books.

"It always snows in my books," he said. "I am fascinated by snow."

Like Destiny, there is a great deal of the supernatural in Decisions, but Mr. Lee thought the second book was actually more realistic than the first.

"All the supernatural that happens in Destiny was purely supernatural," Mr. Lee said. "It involved wizards and warlocks and stuff like that. I still wanted it to be supernatural, but I had already done that. The only thing I hadn't done was demons and angels."

One would expect some serious internal conflicts from a person who is half human and half demon, but Mr. Lee said the two halves of his main character actually get on quite well.

"He is like someone who is bipolar," said Mr. Lee. "You are what you are and you have to deal with it, and people around you have to deal with it, whether you like it or not."

Mr. Lee said his biggest literary inspirations are J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame and Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon. He freely admits that his books have a more than healthy dose of afternoon soap opera in them.

"They are soap operaish where it is structured in such a way that many things are happening at the same time," he said.

One of the criticisms that people had for Destiny was that there were too many characters. Mr. Lee tried to address that problem in his second book.

"I managed to drop two main characters," he said. "In my first book I had eight. This time I have six, so I am getting a little bit better!"

He said the first book was also poorly edited, and he has tried to fix this in the second one.

"Any editor would just look at it and cry to have to fix my work," he said.

Both of his books are being published by a print on demand company called Author House. They are available on all major online booksellers including Amazon.com.

"The Internet is a very powerful thing, I am starting to know," he said. "It is working out pretty well. I found out there was no way I could bring out Decisions without bringing out the first one again. I know I don't like to buy the second in a series if I haven't read the first one. It turned out to work out pretty well because they are both receiving the same amount of readability.

"You don't really have to have read the first one to understand the second one, but I did some things in the second one that only someone who read Destiny would get."

He started writing in college as a way to escape his studies. He wrote the first 300 pages of Destiny as an undergraduate. He currently works at SAL in Southampton.

"My time to write is the moment I knock off from work," he said. "Right now I should be writing, but I am more fascinated about seeing my book sell on the Internet. I think I have written about a paragraph in the last few days."

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