John Saul's Complete Bookshelf
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John Saul is the poster boy for author success stories. From college dropout to bestselling author of more than 20 novels, Saul's unprecedented ascent is an inspiration to aspiring authors. He was born in Whittier, California, in a house his parents had built shortly before his arrival on February 25, 1942. Saul's first memories of the small farming town were "an orange grove down the block and a huge alfalfa field behind us." He left Whittier when he was 18 for an unrewarding career in college that led him to a series of odd jobs in San Francisco.

His big break in came in 1976 when Helen Meyers, the former head of Dell Publishing, took a chance on Suffer the Children. According to Saul, Myers was sick of everyone giving paperbacks the bum rap, so she decided she was going to take the first book of an unknown author, publish it in paperback, and "put it" on the New York Times bestseller list. "She did astonishing things for the book," Saul said. "She had her finger in every part of that pie." For example, Meyers threw out a million copies of the book's original black jacket because she decided "choir boy blue" was better and opted for a very expensive television advertising campaign. Her hunch paid off, and Suffer the Children sold millions of copies. In 1997, Saul tried a new form, a serial novel called the Blackstone Chronicles, released sequentially as six slender paperbacks, then as a boxed set, and finally as a single volume in spring of 1998.

Twenty years (and novels) later, Saul's creepy stories are still selling like hot cakes all around the world. What's his secret? If Saul doesn't believe in what he's writing, he can't expect readers to either. "I always convince myself that everything in one of my books happens exactly as I've written it--this is the gospel truth according to St. John--or there's no point." Saul spends his time between his homes in Maui and Seattle. He's taken up golfing, travels extensively, and considers himself a bona fide travel junkie.

John Saul's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

The Presence (1997)
The Blackstone Chronicles (1997)
Black Lightning (1995)
The Homing (1994)
Guardian (1993)
Shadows (1992)
Darkness (1991)
Sleepwalk (1991)
Second Child (1990)
Creature (1989)
The Unsolved (1988)

John Saul's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

The Unwanted (1987)
Hellfire (1986)
Brainchild (1985)
Nathaniel (1984)
The God Project (1982)
When the Wind Blows (1981)
Comes the Blind Fury (1980)
Cry for the Strangers (1979)
Punish the Sinners (1978)
Suffer the Children (1977)

John Saul's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

 

 

 

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