David Baldacci, WALK THE WIRE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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I had the best time interviewing David Baldacci at seven thirty in the morning on the publication day for his latest novel, Walk the Wire. David is a best-selling author. His first novel was Absolute Power in 1996. The feature film adaptation that followed with Clint Eastwood as its director and star was just one of the many film adaptations of his forty novels that he's written for adults. All have been national and international best sellers. David and I talked about how pub dates are exciting even after experiencing so many of them, his advice to aspiring writers that they need to find subject matter that they have a lot if interest in instead of writing about something they think will be popular, and the wonderful foundation he and his wife started, Wish You Well, which aims to eradicate adult illiteracy in the US.

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1:19.3	interviewing David Baldacci at 7.30 in the morning on the publication day for his latest novel
1:25.3	Walk the Wire. David is a best-selling author.
1:28.8	His first novel was Absolute Power in 1996.
1:32.3	The feature film adaptation that followed with Clint Eastwood as its director and star
1:36.6	was just one of the many film adaptations of his 40 novels that he's written for adults.
1:42.5	All have been national and international bestsellers,
1:45.6	and as I mentioned, several have been adapted for film and TV. His novels are published in over
1:49.8	45 languages and more than 80 countries, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide.
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