His 11-year-old mystery novel was a flop, until his daughter turned it into a bestseller

It took Lloyd Devereux Richards 14 years to write his first novel. But it was his daughter's 12-second TikTok video that finally turned it into a hit. Richards, 74, wrote Stone Maidens on evenings and weekends, in between working a full-time job as a corporate attorney at a Vermont insurance company, and taking care of his children. When he finally published it in 2012, it only sold a few dozen copies here and there.
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