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![]() ![]() Yet, when I remark on his prodigious rate of output, Iggulden looks sceptical. In 2007, he was the first author ever simultaneously to top the UK's fiction and non-fiction bestsellers' charts. Plus, there has been a children's book about tough faeries, Tollins a novella, Blackwater, for 2006 World Book Day and the title with which his name is most readily associated, The Dangerous Book for Boys, co-authored with his younger brother Hal, which has sold four million copies and spawned a whole industry of spin-offs. The fourth instalment of the latter series, Empire of Silver, is out this month. Since his The Gates of Rome appeared in 2003, he has produced a 400-page-plus historical novel every year – that's four of his "Emperor" books (about Julius Caesar) and three in his "Conqueror" series about Genghis Khan – totalling three million in sales. 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![]() Shortly thereafter, Random House reached out to Bender and Chernack about a book deal. "The following Monday we woke up and heard from the New York Times and Time Magazine and the "Today" show. "We had over a million impressions the first week," says Bender. Shortly after launch, the website went viral. So we launched a website to see if people would submit theirs." We thought if we had them, everyone must have them. He was like, Oh, my God, my house is full of those. Then inspiration struck: "I sat down with my writing partner at the time and told him about it. "At first, I couldn’t understand why she was memorializing what I thought was an awkward moment," Bender recalls. ![]() ![]() ![]() He admits that his first impulse was to cringe. ![]() In April 2009, the Los Angeles-based screenwriter - who penned the script for Not Another Teen Movie (2001) and several seasons of the MTV Movie Awards - traveled home for a vacation and spotted his mom displaying a ski vacation photograph. Not Mike Bender, the 1997 Middlebury College grad behind the popular website. I don't know about you guys, but my awkward family photos tend to just gather dust on the mantel. ![]() ![]() 'when life returns to normal' being the "motto" of the pandemic. ".all those who clung together, once gaining strength and cruelty from their unity are kept apart, weakening with terror while we-the alienated, the outsiders-we're still alone with out strength and our souls that speak true, for we possess the gift of solitude and lock down is our home." ('speak true') The pack mentality (and those of us not part of the pack). Our greed and inattentiveness (brains engulfed by cyberspace). Touching on the truth of this world and the realities of the pandemic. ".a memory of infinity reminding me that-even as I sit in the darkness alone, isolated by the pandemic, your ashes scattered on the paths those eland walked-having once been wrapped in your love, I am still rich beyond compare." ('eland by the door') ![]() |