TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.
Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
I'm one of three brothers.
The novel remains a very special form for me.