What inspired the book?
Having worked in technology and finance, The Billionaire's Funeral presents a very real kind of story that can happen to anyone. It is based on research and real cases of identity theft and hacking.

Why use a pen-name rather than your real name for writing fiction? Did you have any second thoughts about opting for a pseudonym?
I felt using a pen-name will do greater justice to my readers who are used to reading books in a different genre from mine. Plus, I wanted this piece of writing to stand on its own two legs and wanted to see whether readers like it even if they don't know the author. Honestly, from the moment I started writing this story, I always wanted to tell it under a pseudonym.

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You've authored more than 10 books under your real name. Did your writing process differ with this one?
No publisher deadlines on this one! I wrote this book and only then shared with my publisher that I had something like this with me. In all other cases, from my second book onwards, my publishers would push me to write something.

How closely does Chad Cohen's personality mirror your own?
Chad Cohen's a billionaire. I am not. The whole book is based on very real possibilities. No one character mirrors me as such. But I have been in enough boardrooms to have met and picked the brains of the likes of Chad Cohen, Michael Cole and the other characters.

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