Bitcoin is complex: the entire private and public key issue, the transfers, the mining of bitcoins... but if you tell it as fiction, people would understand and remember.
I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.
Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.
If you have sold the film rights to somebody, take your money and leave. If the producers need you, they will call you. But you have to be careful about who you are selling your book to, and ensure that it is not tampered with.
Given my extensive background in foreign banks, writing about them came quite naturally to me. Thankfully, God has been kind to me.
I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?
A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.
Write something that you are comfortable with. Do not venture into something that you do not want to write about, because gradually, your discomfort with the subject will begin to show.
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can't, I have left it to people's imagination.
People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see online promotions, see piles of your book in stores, and you have to make sure the guy recommends it!
The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.