the bestselling book we ever did
11th July 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, novel writing, the successful artist, writing, Brad Meltzer |
"I didn't follow my gut. After that, I said, I'm never doing that again. And the book after that, when I went back to doing what I wanted to do, wound up being, at that point in time, the bestselling book we ever did."
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