Goodreads asked Chele Pedersen Smith:

What are you currently working on?

Chele Pedersen Smith My next book, "The Pearly Gates Phone Company," is a creative non-fiction collection of spiritual shorts, and it's just about to hit the Kindle circuit. I'm in the tedious process of editing through Grammarly. Once it's published electronically, I will have my cover artist Steven adjust for a paperback edition.
Have you had little miracles happen in your life? Maybe even momentous events? About fifteen years ago, I started writing about these awesome, unusual coincidences I experienced, trying to get into a Christian magazine that prints these sort of things. But one by one, they kept shooting me down. This book materialized out of this rejection. One day I noticed my efforts were racking up quite a collection. I polished each one, transforming them with the best makeover my revision OCD could give. Then I wrote a bunch more and asked friends and family if they had any awe-inspiring moments of their own. Several told me their amazing stories and I wrote them in as well. Some are pretty big!
I'm back to fictional novels after Pearly Gates is complete. I have one that is half-done. I was working on it before Behind Frenemy Lines barged into my head and took over. It's pretty juicy too.

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