Before Clive Cussler Was a Best-Selling Author...

...he worked in jobs he hated -- until he was 43. When he finally published something, he received absymal reviews.

And then he went on to sell millions of copies. Now he's living every writer's dream: supporting himself pretty darned well, and entirely through his writing.

The moral of this story: failure isn't the end of anything -- it's just the start of something new. Somebody out there is looking for the precise thing you're able to provide.

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