Goodreads asked Paul Van Der Merwe:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Paul Van Der Merwe I was working on a very stressful project while managing the design team for a new diamond processing plant in the mountains of Lesotho.

For the first time in my life I had problems falling asleep. I eventually had to start forcing myself to have happy thoughts, hoping it would relax me so I could fall asleep.

The mind is a wonderful thing and these happy thoughts I had in my half-awake-half-asleep state was quite interesting. The problem was I could not remember them the next day, so I put a notebook with a pen next to my bed and noted the thoughts I was having at 02:00 in the morning.

I eventually ended up with quite a few scribbles in the book and decided to write a book in also fulfilling a life-long dream.

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