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Dan Brown’s Research Techniques Meant He Sold Over 200 Million Copies World Wide
The First Question to Ask is “Do I Want to Write About This?”
With 200 million copies sold world-wide, Dan Brown is a name most of us recognise. But Brown was late to the writing party, he stumbled across writing at the age of 30 just by luck. He was holidaying in Tahiti and happened to pick up the book ‘Doomsday Conspiracy’ by Sidney Sheldon. After reading it cover to cover he was amazed.
It was the first time he realised that this genre extended to an adult audience and he thought to himself.
“Hey I could do that”
In 1996, two years after Dan became a full-time writer, yet his success was a way off. Two years later he published his first novel, Digital Fortress. Brown tells the story of his first signing experience, he was excited, you would be wouldn’t you. The 3-hour signing began.
He waited and he waited.
Nothing.
Except for the one person that asked him the directions to the restroom.
That is a far cry from where he is today, Brown is worth a staggering $160 million and has everything any one person could dream of. He does what he loves for a living, he’s really quite good…
