804 - How to Write Books That Sell 160-Million Copies with Ken Follett
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:16.9 | Always love talking to Ken Follett, the author of I Have The Needle and his new thriller |
| 0:22.2 | called Never. |
| 0:23.2 | He's always interesting. |
| 0:24.7 | He sold 160 million copies of his books overall. |
| 0:27.5 | He's a massive bestseller. |
| 0:29.8 | We talk about Net Olney, his process of creating a bestseller thriller and how he looks at |
| 0:36.3 | plot, character and everything else. |
| 0:38.8 | But also we talked about the current world situation and how world could end, which of |
| 0:44.5 | course is great material for thriller writers and something we should all be wary of. |
| 0:58.5 | You get COVID yet or anything? |
| 1:00.4 | None of my family has caught the virus. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm happy to say. |
| 1:03.3 | Oh, good. |
| 1:04.3 | In this country or in the States. |
| 1:06.4 | And actually none of my employees has caught it. |
| 1:08.7 | But we've been very careful here in my house where we have cleaners and like that. |
| 1:15.1 | We all wear masks when we meet the staff here. |
| 1:19.0 | It's interesting the different levels of security and concern people have around the world |
| 1:24.2 | and around the country and so on. |
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