 and just sort of fell in love with the fact that, hey, you can learn a lot about what's going on in the world and have a good time doing it, reading fiction, as opposed to textbooks and things like that. So I just became a voracious reader with no intentions of being a writer, just obsessed with spy novels and military novels. And then a few years into that, I got the idea for a story, and it took me 15 years to write my first book, but I kept picking away on it.