Have you ever read anything by Nicholas Sparks?
Yeah, a few. He has published 19 novels and two non fictions. so yeah 
Wow that is a lot, not as many as Stephen King but still quite a bit.
Yeah, and he's not that old either. He was born in '65. Surprising he writes romance novels. 
That is surprising, he is the one who wrote The Notebook right?
That was in 1993, his breakout novel. He was a drug rep. in Washington, DC at the time.
Very interesting, I wonder if that left him with a lot of time to write.
It was published in 1996 and made the New York Times best seller list in its first week. 
Wow that was a runaway success has he had anything else as successful?
Not sure. He is a screenwriter and producer I think, so he has quite a few movies out also