Goodreads asked Marc Liebman:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Marc Liebman I spent years in the outsouring business either working for a provider in business development or for a consulting firm advising clients on whether or not to outsource and then selecting and negotiating a contract with a provider. The politics and machinations on both sides often make you wonder if you not acting in a movie because there are good guys who want to do the right thing for their firm, villians who want to torpedo the project and those whose personal agendas create mischief. Think of characters you could invent... A hard driving CFO who wants to maximize short term gains to max out his bonus, a CEO who wants to improve the stock price so his options are more valuable; a functional VP who doesn't believe it will work. One could create a unethical sales man who will do anything to win the deal and he is pushed by a a VP of business development who needs to make his numbers, at any price. Caught in the middle is the consultant advising the client and and the company's project leader. One can add in bribes, sex, unethical, even murder and dirty tricks to spice up the plot so, to answer the question, it is a mystery to me as to why I haven't written a novel with the process of outsourcing as a core element of the plot...

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