![]() ![]() It seems that one thing that all good authors have in common is an adherence to a piece of advice from an author they admire. But O’Brien didn’t wait for the iron to cool before striking again, and he went on to publish three more USA Today bestselling thrillers. Perhaps taking a leaf out of Grisham’s book, O’Brien, too, tried his hand at writing a thriller, publishing The Next to Die in 2001, which became a USA Today bestseller. Ten years later, O’Brien unveiled his sophomore effort, Only Son, which saw commercial success, and was even optioned for film rights due to an interest from none other than Tom Hanks.īut the accolades didn’t stop there, however, as Only Son ended up being selected by Reader’s Digest for their Select Editions, in the company of critically acclaimed books such as John Grisham’s The Partner. The culmination of this hotel-hopping night-writing was Actors, which was released in 1987 and translated into three different languages. O’Brien moved to Seattle in 1980, and his railroad job saw him moving all across the Pacific Northwest, where he would write his debut novel in various hotels. Before his writing career took off, Kevin O’Brien toiled as a railroad inspector by day (or “all the live long day,” according to his official website), and worked on his stories by night. ![]() ![]() The story of Kevin O’Brien’s writing career is almost as whimsical as a character you could expect to find in a great book. ![]()
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