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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, STEVE BERRY

What made you decide to switch from practicing lag to novel writing?

That little röst in my head. Every writer has one. It nags you every day, telling you to sit down and write. inom ignored that voice all during the 1980s while practicing lag. Finally, in 1990, I listened to it and started a novel. That first attempt was long and awful. The second and third attempts weren’t much better. It wasn’t until the fourth try that I began to appreciate the reality that writing novels was hard. inom kept writing for 12 years and produced 8 manuscripts. fem were submitted to New York publishing houses and rejected a combined 85 times. Eventually, in 2002, on the 86th attempt, twelve years after I started, the right-editor-at-the-righttime-with-the-right-story found me. inom may or may not know much about writing, but I’m a world class expert on rejection.

Has your past professional experience influenced

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Steve Berry

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Notes of Interest

Steve Berry is the author of nearly a dozen historical thrillers that have made him one of America's top bestselling authors. A native of Atlanta now living in Florida, he has appeared on major bestseller lists through the first decade of the 21st century, and more than 11 million of his books are in print around the world.

Steve Berry was born in Atlanta in 1955 and grew up there. He was graduated from Valdosta State University in 1977, and received his law degree from Mercer University's Walter F. George Law School in 1980. From 1980 until 2010, when he moved to St. Augustine, Florida, he made his home at St. Marys on the southeast Georgia coast.

A teacher as well as a Georgia trial attorney, he worked for 12 years beginning in 1990 to produce a novel. Along the way, he says, he received a total of 85 rejections for five different manuscripts. But he persevered, and in 2003, Ballantine Books published his first novel, "The Am

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Berry, Steve 1955-

PERSONAL:

Born 1955; married; wife's name Amy; children: one daughter. Education: College graduate. Hobbies and other interests: Scuba diving, book collecting, golf.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Camden County, GA. Agent—Pam Ahearn, Ahearn Literary Agency, 2021 Pine St., New Orleans, LA 70118.

CAREER:

Attorney and writer. Member of the Camden County Board of Education and Camden County Board of Commissioners.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Third place, Florida First Coast Writers Festival, 1998; first place, Georgia State Bar fiction writing contest, 2000, 2001.

WRITINGS:

SUSPENSE NOVELS

The Amber Room, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2003.

The Romanov Prophecy, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2004.

The Third Secret, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2005.

The Templar Legacy, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2006.

The Alexandria Link, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Steve Berry is a trial lawyer who also writes international thrillers. H