“Usually, when people get to the end of
a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatively write a
book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one
more page.” -Sidney Sheldon
Born on this date in 1917, Sheldon is perhaps
responsible for more sleepless nights than he cares to take actual credit
for. He went from being a “good” television show producer to a great
novelist, writing some 20 books after the age of 50, including the
best-sellers, Master of the Game, The Other Side of Midnight, and A
Rage of Angels.
Before his death in 2007 just one week
short of age 90, he had become one of the top 10 best-selling fiction writers
of all time, a position he still holds. His novels often feature
determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile men, and contain
a workshop’s worth of suspenseful devices that keep his readers turning the
page.
“If there is any secret to my success,
I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they
feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them. I put my
characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out,”
he told an interviewer. “And then I figure how to get them out.”
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