Peter Shankman

What was funny for me was the concept of...

you know you get a year to do it or eight months to do it and within two weeks left the

My publisher calls and says, hey, two weeks left.

How's the book coming?

Are you ready to go?

I'm like, yeah, totally cool.

I haven't done shit.

I booked a flight to Asia.

I sat down in seat 2D.

I wrote chapters 1 through 5 on the flight out.

I landed in Asia.

I didn't even clear immigration.

I went to the lounge, had a soda, took a shower, got back on the same plane, same seat two hours later, wrote chapters 6 through 10, and came home.

I was done.

So I wrote my book in 31 hours and it was a bestseller.

It was, uh, having to explain to immigration, uh, they detained me.

Cause when I get back to America, because I didn't have a stamp, my passport from, from Tokyo.

Um, I, you know, I went there and I never actually checked in.

And so, uh, as far as they were concerned, I was smuggling something.

For me, it was building a website that said, hey, buy X number of books.