Bestselling Author Nicholas Sparks Draws Large Crowd to Doylestown Bookshop

Reported Monday, October 30, 2024.

Pictured Above: John Connolly. Photo Credit: Contributed..

NEWSROOM POST: DOYLESTOWN PENNSYLVANIA

Doylestown, PA – On Monday night, one thousand Nicholas Sparks fans descended upon Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to meet the bestselling author as he tours for his new book, Counting Miracles. Sparks pre-signed over 1,050 books for fans and took photos with his readers as a part of this event at The Doylestown Bookshop. Tickets sold out within a week and a half of the Doylestown event announcement, which was announced late this summer.

The director of Events for The Doylestown and Lahaska Bookshop, Krisy Elisii, said, “This was by far one of the most successful events we have hosted in the twenty-six years we have been in business. We are grateful to Mr. Sparks, his fans, our staff, volunteers, and the Doylestown Township Police Department for working with us to make this an enjoyable experience for all in attendance.”

Pictured Above: Part of the line as fans await to meet the bestselling author, Nicholas Sparks. Photo Credit: Contributed.

About the Author:

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.

Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28 while living in Simpsonville, SC. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written

with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, will be published on September 24, 2024.

Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. The Notebook has also been adapted into a musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.

 

Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley.

The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2011, to provide scholarships and fund educational programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.

Pictured Above: Nicholas Sparks Book Shop Lower Home. Photo Credit: Contributed.

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