Goodreads asked Will Once:

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

Will Once James Coburn starred in a couple of films about an American version of James Bond called Derek Flint - "Our man Flint" and "In like Flint". In one of them there is a scene where the inevitable megalomaniac bad guys describe their motives for taking over the world. They want to end wars, fight poverty and pursue peace. They challenge Flint to disagree with their motives. Why not join them?

Flint, naturally, wants nothing to do with their world domination plans. And before long he has destroyed their organisation by blowing up the also inevitable volcano.

And that got me thinking. Why do we always assume that it would be a bad thing if someone wanted to take over the world? What if they wanted to do it for benign reasons? What if the James Bond or Derek Flint character was wrong to try to stop them?

So I wrote "Global Domination for Beginners" as a gentle spoof of the Bond/ Bourne/ Flint/ Austin Powers genre.

It is told from the first person perspective of the megalomaniac bad guy ... who turns out to be not such a bad guy after all.

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