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William Walker Atkinson	In any case, with or without a co-author, Atkinson started writing a series of books under the name Yogi Ramacharaka in 1903, ultimately releasing more than a dozen titles under this pseudonym.
Chris Bohjalian	The novel was critically acclaimed and was selected by Oprah Winfrey as the October 1998 selection of her Oprah's Book Club, which helped push the book to great financial success.
Irving Layton	The publication of A Red Carpet For The Sun in 1959 secured Layton's national reputation while the many books of poetry which followed eventually gave him an international reputation, never as high however in the United States and Britain as it was in some countries where Layton was read in translation.
Simon A. Forward	In the same year, Simon also had another Doctor Who novel published by BBC Books, the Eighth Doctor Adventure Emotional Chemistry (BBC Books, 2003).
Ron Terpening	In 2007, Terpening published a contemporary international suspense thriller, Nine Days in October, `` his most successful fictional foray into the murk of international crime.''
Sylvia Day	Alluring Tales Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Dream Guardians Marked Series (w/a S. J. Day) Sapphire Series (w/a Livia Dare) In April 2013, HeroesAndHeartbreakers.
Cornelia Funke	She had a stint illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic The fantasy novel Dragon Rider (2004) stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks.
Truman Capote	The critical success of one of his short stories,'' Miriam'' (1945) attracted the attention of the publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel.
Sophie Lee	In 2009 Sophie released her first children's novel titled'' Edie Amelia and the Monkey Shoe Mystery'', a story for 7 + year olds, published by Pan Macmillan.
Dan Nainan	Nainan's book about standup comedy, titled How to Become a Full-Time Standup Comedian, was published by HyperInk Press on April 18, 2012.
Nick Alexander (author)	His novel, The Half Life of Hannah, published in September 2012 reached # 1 in the free UK Amazon Kindle book chart and sold over 230,000 copies.
Rick Day	Rick Day's book Pioneers, released in 2010 debuted at number one on the Amazon best selling erotic book list.
Jason Starr	In 1997, Starr's first crime novel, Cold Caller, was published by No Exit Press in the U. K.
Martina Cole	Cole's new novel, The Faithless, was released on 20 October 2011 and it has already appeared on the Sunday Times Bestseller list.
Danny Wallace (humorist)	Wallace's latest book and debut novel, Charlotte Street, was released on 10 May 2012 under Ebury Publishing.
Joan Lingard	Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970.
Ken Spillman	After a successful full-length fiction debut in 1999 with the highly acclaimed novel Blue, Spillman wrote children's books with comedian Jon Doust.
Roger King (novelist)	His third novel, Sea Level, was published in 1992 and was slightly more successful : WorldCat shows it in 83 libraries According to The New York Times, `` this beautifully worked novel is told from the vantage point of a man who has reached the end of everything : his married life ; his affair with a shrewd erotic mistress ; his career, even the ends of the earth.''
Kenneth Walton (writer)	In April 2006 Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published Walton's first book, Fake : Forgery, Lies, & eBay, a memoir of the eBay scandal and its aftermath.
Randolph Caldecott	By 1884, sales of Caldecott's Nursery Rhymes had reached 867,000 copies (of twelve books) and he was internationally famous.
Kerri Sakamoto	Her second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, was published in 2003.
Daniel O'Mahony	Following the announcement of Virgin's intention to start publishing the New Adventures, O'Mahony submitted a number of proposals for novels, the third of which (Falls the Shadow) was accepted and published in November 1994.
Richard Flanagan	His next book, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998), which tells the story of Slovenian immigrants, was a major bestseller, selling more than 150,000 copies in Australia alone.
Christopher Newman Hall	Come to Jesus, first published in 1848 also contributed to his becoming a household name throughout Britain, the USA and further afield - by the end of the century the book had been translated into about forty languages and sold four million copies worldwide.
Barry Hannah	Soon after this, Hannah says he wrote his first truly good story,'' Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Hurt,'' : Hannah's first novel, the grotesque coming-of-age tale Geronimo Rex (1972), was nominated for the National Book Award.
Harold Brodkey	Soon thereafter, in 1964, Brodkey signed a book contract with Random House for his first novel, titled A Party of Animals (it was also referred to as The Animal Corner).
Joe Craig	In the same year he started work on his first novel, a thriller for children and young adults, and in 2004 he signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins Children's Books.
George Carlin	His first hardcover book, Brain Droppings (1997), sold nearly 900,000 copies and spent 40 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
Clem Chambers	The First Horseman (2012) (ISBN 978-1-84243-654-7) is Clem Chambers' fourth novel, and the fourth in the' Jim Evans' series of thrillers.
Jonathan Downes	Also Nick Redfern's 2004 book Three Men Seeking Monsters : Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-men is a fictionalized chronicle of the adventures of Redfern, Downes and Richard Freeman.
Marilyn French	Her first and best-known novel, The Women's Room, released in 1977, sold more than 20 million copies and was translated into 20 languages.
Janet Morris	Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others.
Sophie Hannah	Her first novel, Little Face, was published in 2006 and has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Kerry Wilkinson	In August 2013, The Bookseller reported that Pan Macmillan had bought two more books from Wilkinson, including a standalone crime novel, Down Among The Dead Men ; and Something Wicked, a spin-off from Playing With Fire, book five of the Jessica Daniel series.
Alex Morgan	In 2012, Morgan signed with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing to pen The Kicks, a three-book series for middle schoolers.
F. Van Wyck Mason	By 1931 he had settled into a career as an author of novels as well as short fiction, publishing two more Captain North novels and his first historical novel, Captain Nemesis, which was republished from an earlier pulp serial.
Charles Lindbergh	The book, which was also soon translated into most major languages, remained at the top of best seller lists well into 1928 with more than 650,000 copies sold in the first year and earned Lindbergh more than $ 250,000.
Bob Fingerman	In March 2010, his satirical post-apocalyptic'' speculative memoir'' From the Ashes was released as a graphic novel.
Sophie Lee	She has now branched into writing, releasing a book in 2007 titled'' Alice in La La Land'' through Random House publishing.
Limor Blockman	Blockman is author of three bestselling books (published in Hebrew) : 300 Tips for Better Sex, which earned her a platinum award for selling 40,000 copies in 2007 ; Gay Pride, the complete guide for the gay, bisexual, and transgender community ; and Confessions, the true story of Blockman's search for love and honest relationship.
Patrick French	French's next book, Liberty or Death -- India's Journey to Independence and Division was published in 1997 and earned the author accolades and brickbats in equal parts.
Frank Marshall Davis	In order to raise cash, in 1968 Davis authored a pornographic novel, titled Sex Rebel : Black under the pseudonym Bob Greene, which was published by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing Company.
Jamie Byng	Byng is the initiator and Chair of World Book Night, an event in which on 5 March 2011 (following World Book Day on 3 March) one million books - 40,000 copies of each of 25 carefully selected titles - were given away to members of the public in the UK and Ireland.
Todd Walton	Walton's second novel, Forgotten Impulses, was published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster and was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best novels of that year.
David Sedaris	In 2004 Sedaris published Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, which reached number 1 on The New York Times nonfiction best seller list on June 20, 2004.
Christabel Rose Coleridge	She went on to publish more than 15 novels, the first being a children's historical story called Lady Betty (1869).
Graham McNeill	Early 2009 saw the release of his first novel outside of the Black Library, I, Mengsk (McNeill, 2009), set in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft universe.
Herman Koch	His sixth novel was Het diner (2009 ;), which was translated into 21 languages including English, had sold over one million copies throughout Europe, and won the 2009 NS Audience Award (Dutch : NS Publieksprijs).
Lauren Weisberger	In 2003, Weisberger's first book, The Devil Wears Prada, was released and spent six months on the'' New York Times'' Best Seller List.
David L. Robbins (Virginia writer)	His most recent novel, Broken Jewel, was released on November 10, 2009 by Simon and Schuster.
Kat Von D	Her first book, High Voltage Tattoo, compiling her artworks and tattoos, with a foreword by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, was released in January 2009 and reached # 6 on'' The New York Times'' Best Seller list.
David Sedaris	By 2008 his books had sold seven million copies.
Michel Faber	Faber's latest novel, titled The Fire Gospel, was published in 2008 as part of the Canongate Myth Series.
Andrew McGahan	In late 2011 McGahan published The Coming of the Whirlpool, which is the first book of a four volume young adult fantasy series of seafaring adventure, entitled Ship Kings.
Hall Caine	However his next book, The Manxman, published in 1894, was one of his greatest successes, eventually selling over half a million copies and being translated into 12 languages.
Richard Miniter	com/Shadow-War-Untold - America-Winning/dp/0895260107 Shadow War : The Untold Story of How America is Winning the War on Terror, became his second New York Times bestseller, debuting at number seven on the November 7, 2004 edition of the newspaper's non-fiction bestseller list.
Gavin Hetherington	Gavin published the first novel in the series, Remnants of the Damned on 9 October 2013 on the Amazon Kindle store exclusively.
G?nter Grass	Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism, and the first part of his Danzig Trilogy, which also includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years.
Tara Moss	Moss had two novels due for release in 2012 : Assassin, the sixth in the Mak Vanderwall crime series, and The Skeleton Key, the third in the Pandora English series.
Cory Doctorow	Doctorow released the bestselling novel Little Brother in 2008 with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence.
Simon A. Forward	Following this, Simon had a proposal for a Past Doctor Adventure accepted, and the subsequent novel, Drift, was published by BBC Books in 2002.
Dan Brown	His fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code, became a bestseller, going to the top of the'' New York Times'' Best Seller list during its first week of release in 2003.
Brenda Jackson	The following year, in 2002, she became the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line.
Mur Lafferty	Her monster travel-guide novel, The Shambling Guide To New York City will be published by Orbit in May 2013, and is the first of a series.
Ruth Montgomery	In 1965 her book, `` A Gift of Prophecy'' about Jeane Dixon was published and became a best-seller, selling over 3 million copies.
Rachel Bridge	co. uk/How-Start-Business - without-Money/dp/0753540878 / ref ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 How to Start a Business Without Any Money is Bridge's fifth title and was published by Virgin Books in 2012.
Jim Thompson (writer)	Savage Night, published in 1953, is generally ranked as one of his best novels.
Alexander Wilson (writer and spy)	He began writing spy novels while in India and received his first contract for The Mystery of Tunnel 51 from Longmans and Green Co. in 1927.
Jesse Reklaw	Reklaw is currently writing an autobiographical graphic novel called Couchtag, an excerpt of which, 13 Cats, was published in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2006.
Michel Faber	In 2001, when the publication of The Crimson Petal and the White was imminent, Canongate urged Faber to become a UK citizen so that the book could be submitted for the Booker Prize, which was at that time open only to authors holding Commonwealth passports.
Marquis Childs	He began writing his column'' Washington Calling'' in February 1944 and published The Cabin (an autobiographical novel) that year.''
Onyeka Nwelue	His completed manuscript was sent out to agents and publishers in 2006 and Nwelue claimed to have received over 45 rejection slips, before DADA Books publisher, Ayodele Arigbabu, called from Cape Town and offered to publish the book.
Tess Gerritsen	Although most of her recent publications have been in the Rizzoli/Isles series, Gerritsen wrote a stand-alone historical thriller, The Bone Garden in 2007.
Chelsea Handler	It's Me, Chelsea (2008), a collection of humorous essays that hit the'' New York Times'' Nonfiction Best Seller List on May 11, 2008, with a print run of over 350,000.
Mignon Fogarty	In July 2008, Holt released Fogarty's first paperback book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
Richard Montanari	In 1998 he published The Violet Hour, a thriller featuring freelance writer Nicky Stella.
Jurij Moskvitin	Immediately after Spies's death April 16, 1984 Moskivitin began Writing the book which he managed to publish within the same year under the title'' Simon Spies -- en myte'' (Simon Spies a myth).
Chris Simms (author)	His novel Savage Moon was shortlisted for the 2009 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Staccato chapters alternate between viewpoints of The Searcher, The Hunter and The Killer - each character roaming the roads of Britain in pursuit of his own obsessive agenda.
Patrick Mercer	In May 2009, Harper Collins published Mercer's first novel, To Do and Die, a historical fiction story set during the Crimean War.
Tony Shillitoe	In 2006 Shillitoe released the first novel in a new fantasy series, the Dreaming in Amber quartet, published by Harper Collins.
Aminatta Forna	The Hired Man, Forna's third novel, was published to wide acclaim in the UK in March 2013.
Patrick Carman	Carman's first book, The Dark Hills Divide, was published in 2003 The book, and the subsequent books in the same series (The Land of Elyon), were all New York Times bestsellers, and spent a combined nine months on the list.
Lindsey Davis	In 2012 Davis and her publishers Hodder & Stoughton and St. Martin's Press announced that she was writing a new series of books centred on Flavia Albia, Falco's British-born adopted daughter and'' an established female investigator''.
Julia Griggs Havey	She went on to write, self-publish several diet books describing her weight-loss regimen, as well as her autobiographical Awaken the Diet Within, which was published by Warner Books 2001 and'' The Vice Busting Diet'' was published by St. Martin's Press.
Clem Chambers	The Twain Maxim (2010) (ISBN 978-1-84243-341-6) is the second financial thriller by British entrepreneur and author Clem Chambers, published by No Exit Press.
Erica Kennedy	Her second novel, Feminista, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2009.
Betty Broderick	At least three books were written about her story (Until the Twelfth of Never : The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick, 1993, by Bella Stumbo ; Until the Twelfth of Never - Should Betty Broderick ever be free ?
William Gibson	The Sprawl trilogy was followed by the 1990 novel The Difference Engine, an alternative history novel Gibson wrote in collaboration with Bruce Sterling.
Albert E. Kahn	Kahn broke the blacklist in 1962 with publication by Simon & Schuster of the critically acclaimed Days With Ulanova, an intimate portrait of the fabled Bolshoi ballerina.
David Goodis	Cassidy's Girl (1951) sold over a million copies, and he continued to write for paperback publishers, notably Gold Medal.
Howard Stern	show, and run for Governor of New York (1993 -- 94) In 1993, Stern signed a $ 1 million advance contract with publisher Simon & Schuster to write his first book.
Jonathan Maberry	Maberry's first Young Adult novel was released in September 2011 from Simon & Schuster.
Anne Karin Elstad	She debuted as an author in 1976 with the novel Folket på Innhaug, which is the first of four novels in a popular series about the people who lived at Innhaug.
Hilary Duff	Published in October 2010, the first novel to result from her and Allen's collaboration, Elixir, was subsequently released internationally and become a New York Times best-seller.
Frank Bruni	Bruni's book, Born Round : The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater was released in 2009, and spent a week on the'' New York Times'' best seller list.
Joan Kahn	Belatedly following her 1938 debut, Kahn would author three additional children's books over the next four decades ; moreover, many of the anthologies Kahn compiled over the years were specifically geared to the young adult market.
Kerry Wilkinson	He signed a six-book deal with Pan Books in February 2012 to publish his Jessica Daniel series of novels.
Martin Walser	His first novel Ehen in Philippsburg (English : Marriages in Philippsburg) was published in 1957 and was a huge success.
Rosana Ubanell	In 2011 she released her first novel Volver a Morir, a Spanish-language detective novel based in the city of Miami.
Laura J. Mixon	Her first book, Astropilots, was published as part of a Young Adult series by Scholastic/Omni books in 1987.