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I have been reading a brilliant book called “Behind the Bestsellers” by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy. This book looks at the people who have written best-sellers throughout the generations – where they came from, what made them tick and how they came to write their best-selling novel.

The book chronicles everyone from Stephen King to Jane Austen. It covers Jackie Collins through to Fyodor Dostoevsky and is one of the most fascinating reads I have had in ages!

Many authors were surprise successes – even to themselves! A number only ever wrote one book in their life like Harper Lee with “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Some people had lots of help such as Dan Brown in the “DaVinci Code” – whose researcher was his wife Blythe Newton who undertook all the detailed research, helped sketch out the plot and did everything except hold the pen that wrote the book.

While others never saw the fruits of their work such as Michael Johnson who was the author of one of the first English dictionaries and Noah Webster who wrote the first American Dictionary of the English Language.

So what is the one thing behind every best-seller?  Not one of the people they covered came from a life that was all rosy. Every one of the writers had some challenge or trouble in their childhood or life. Every one of them had faced things that many other people would have crumbled under – and they drew the strength from their experiences and brought those elements into their story-lines.

When you are having one of those days or when you get stressed about the economy – maybe you need to just rethink it as “There is a best-selling book in this experience!”.

Until next time

Ingrid Cliff

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