Sparks "spark"

"North Carolina novelist Nicholas Sparks is "publishing's reigning king of sticky sentiment," according to Publishers Weekly contributor Jason Anthony. From his first solo effort, 1996's The Notebook, Sparks has crafted a novel a year--usually a romance--and his books have successively topped the bestseller charts. They have also been adapted as several successful motion pictures, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and The Notebook."



"Nicholas Sparks's romance-heavy novels have spent weeks on the best-seller lists and have earned him a reputation as one of the few men to write successful love stories for a popular audience. His second foray, Message in a Bottle, became a 1999 motion picture starring Kevin Costner, while others have been optioned for the big screen as well. A film adaptation of Sparks's A Walk to Remember was released in 2002."

All of this and much more other awards and motion pictures have been awarded for Nicholas Sparks fenomenal and sentimental writting, and yet there is still much more to come!
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