Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
Dan Brown, Who Turned a Conspiracy Theory into a Blockbuster Novel
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Randy Overbeck
In the episode, you'll learn--
- how Brown's childhood fascination with puzzles led to his best-selling plots
- how his failed music career led him to writing
- how he struggled with his early books
- how he turned his fascination with puzzles and conspiracy theories into blockbuster novels
- how he uses some VERY unusual writing habits to achieve success
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!