"Now that I'm established, however, if I wanted to write a literary work, the doors are open," he added.

Although he conceives of his books visually, he said that he still finds it difficult to write screenplays.

"In books, you can show what the characters are thinking. In movies, the characters don't think," he quipped.

Mezrich called Hollywood worse than the publishing industry. When his novel Reaper was made into the television film Fatal Error, he said he was able to exercise some creative control, but the movie ended up with a cast that wasn't exactly what he had envisioned.

Mezrich has tried to get other projects going out in California, including films, television series and other television movie projects. But so far, he has been unsuccessful.

"If you have a movie, your books get to the next level [in sales]," Mezrich said. "That's definitely where I'm looking now."

Mezrich had tips on the writing process, too.