Calvin Coolidge said: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

Well, it’s all true. And my guest today has the tales to prove it.

I’m delighted to welcome my friend and fellow crime writer Daniel Palmer to the show today.

Daniel has a few iterations of names and brands, which we’ll get to in the conversation, but the headline is - he is the author of 22 novels. He’s written under Daniel Palmer, D.J. Palmer and as a duo with his dad, Michael Palmer, who was also a hugely successful medical thriller author. Daniel received his master’s degree from Boston University and after a career in e-commerce he shifted gears to writing full time.

I love talking to writers about their journeys because everyone’s is so unique. And the publishing journey is a whole other thing - also super unique to everyone and completely separate from the writing journey. Daniel and I talk a lot about that as he walks us through the twists and turns his career has taken - as many as any good suspense novel - and it serves as a reminder to us all that the path may not look the way we thought it would but if we stick with it, we’ll get to the right place.

We talked about his winding path to the career he has today, including:

• What to do when the writing journey doesn’t go the way you think it “should”

• What it was like growing up with a hugely successful novelist father, and how that

shaped his writing and his own career (surprisingly not in the way you might think!)

• Why you need to stick to the path, no matter how directionless it might seem in a

certain moment

• How a fictional dog salvaged his first novel

And so much more.

If you’re looking for inspiration to keep going when your writing career isn’t panning out the

way you hoped, come listen. Have we got stories for you.

You can connect with Daniel here: https://danielpalmerbooks.com/

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