Harlan Coben

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1,008 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Rosebud in NYC - Harlan Coben · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Oh, yes.

I showed it to a lot of people at the time, and I tried getting it published, but it wasn't any good.

Even if it's good, you know how hard it is to get something published.

When I first started, and that year, this is what we're talking about now in the 1980s.

Just getting published was a major accomplishment.

There was no indie presses.

There was no sort of things like that.

You had to get published by a real big publishing house.

And that was my dream.

I was like, if I could just one day, one day have one book published.

I just want to be a published author.

I want to walk past a bookstore one day and just see one copy.

You know, that was my first goal.

From the moment I started to write, that was it.

I mean, I always wanted to be a pro basketball player, but that dream kind of started to fade around 15 or 16.

And by 21 was pretty much, you know, I was a good college player, or maybe, but I was not going to be a pro basketball player.

So this was the dream.

And it was something, once I attached myself to it, I just, I knew.

I don't want to, I hate when people say stuff like that and sound corny and make you sound highfalutin or anything like that.

But I just, I was not going to give up on it.

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