How Did You Write a Novel?

When we met, you said to me that you intended to write a best seller in the vein whend michael criton. And then when i went to your webside, and there is a quote from publishers weekly saying, critones thriller don't come much better than this. So how did you croft a book? How did you go about this, in a way, to kind of croft the best seller, because it's not luck, is it? Well, i think it's a bit of both, right? You can be very purposeful about it. I knew one of the advantages of starting this career a little later in life is that i knew myself really well