Have you ever read anything by Nicholas Sparks?
Yeah, a few. He has published 19 novels and two non fictions. so yeah 
Wow that is a lot, not as many as Stephen King but still quite a bit.
Yeah, and he's not that old either. He was born in '65. Surprising he writes romance novels. 
That is surprising, he is the one who wrote The Notebook right?
That was in 1993, his breakout novel. He was a drug rep. in Washington, DC at the time.
Very interesting, I wonder if that left him with a lot of time to write.
Park secured a $1 million advance for "The Notebook" from Time Warner Book Group. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the "New York Times" best-seller list in its first week of release.
With the success of his first novel, he moved to New Bern, North Carolina. He subsequently wrote several international bestsellers, and several of his novels have been adapted as films: "Message in a Bottle" (1999), "A Walk to Remember" (2002)
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