Goodreads asked Chris Westphal:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chris Westphal The central premise for The Pyongyang Paradox evolved over dozens of false starts and fruitless tangents. I started with the main character, Tom Huttle, a failed writer, who's determined to write a novel, but is entirely unequipped to do so. His grandiose ambitions and delusions propel the narrative. Eventually, I came up with the idea that Tom would switch places with his fictional creation, a swashbuckling secret agent named Buck Samson. Buck also switches places with Tom, so I had two fish out of water stories. It was very fun, once I figured out what I was doing, but probably wrote six hundred pages of material that I will never use.

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