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Best-selling Novelist Nicholas Sparks on ETV This Christmas Eve
For Immediate Release
December 10, 2008
You’ve read his books and also enjoyed their adaptations on the big screen. This Christmas Eve, The Writers’ Circle of S.C. presents a surprising and insightful conversation with New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks. The program airs statewide on ETV at 7 p.m. on Dec. 24, just days after Hollywood wraps production on his latest adaptation, Dear John which is being filmed in Charleston.
Having grossed half a billion dollars in ticket sales, box office favorites like The Notebook--also filmed in South Carolina’s Lowcountry--along with Sparks’ recent book-to-movie project Nights in Rodanthe, are featured in the program.
During the half-hour broadcast, the “accidental author” talks candidly about everything from his latest novel, The Lucky One, to how he began his journey towards becoming one of America’s top-selling storytellers. It all began with an injury Sparks suffered as a 19-year-old track athlete at Notre Dame University. That set-back led to the off-hand comment by his mother to “write a book” while recuperating. The random suggestion was the catalyst for an unexpected career that the writer lightheartedly admits was never his intention. “I didn’t grow up thinking I was going to be a writer at all. I mean -- writing’s hard,” said Sparks.
Later in the program, he jokingly confesses his struggles with putting pen to paper, “I don’t find it [writing] particularly enjoyable. I don’t particularly like it. There are many other things I’ll do. Like -- if I have a list of ten things to do in my day…writing will continue to get bumped down that list until I’ve got no excuse left.”
South Carolina ETV is the state's public educational broadcasting network with 11 television and eight radio transmitters, and a multi-media educational system in more than 2,500 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. Using television, radio and the web, SCETV's mission is to enrich lives by educating children, informing and connecting citizens, celebrating our culture and environment and instilling the joy of learning.
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For more information, contact Rob Schaller at (803) 737-6556 or rschaller@scetv.org.
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New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks. Photo credit: Alice M. Arthur
Author Nicholas Sparks with Patti Just, host of "The Writers' Circle of S.C." Photo credit: ETV
Actors Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling from the Nicholas Sparks movie, "The Notebook." Photo credit: Melissa Moseley/New Line Productions
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of Nicholas Sparks' latest movie "Dear John." Photo credit: Scott Garfield
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