Ledwidge has co-authored eleven more books with Patterson, including a few standalone novels. Sullivan has co-authored five of the Private series with James Patterson, which makes him pretty successful right there. The Rabbit Factory , in fact, came this close to becoming a TV series on TNT; screenwriter Allan Loeb wrote a pilot which was produced, but the network declined to pick it up as a series. Like Paetro, Karp knew Patterson from his career in advertising, and when Patterson suggested they work on Kill Me if You Can , Karp was happy to dive in—and was rewarded with his first 1 bestselling book.
His original series still has plenty of fans, though; Karp says he wrote Terminal in response to reader demand. There are no guarantees in publishing—you can get a big advance, garner rave reviews, and sell very, very poorly. The closest thing to a guarantee you can get, in fact, is to team up with someone like Patterson.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. The formula Patterson uses for the books that have made him the planet's best-selling author since is pretty simple.
All the action is sketched out in detail in the outlines he sends to the co-authors. There are a lot of periods in each paragraph and a lot of paragraphs on every page. There are very few pages per chapter. Every chapter starts with a quick reminder of who was in the prior chapter and what transpired. It is not taken as an insult to say often the prose is pretty bad. In more recent years, Patterson has devoted his time and money to promoting literacy and supporting local bookstores.
He has launched a national campaign to promote reading. He has contributed millions of dollars to his and his wife's alma maters, and given additional millions in scholarships at dozens of colleges and universities. As Vanity Fair states, he has sent hundreds of thousands of books to troops and given countless books to public schools across the country.
Patterson intends that about half his wealth will go to charity and has hopes his son will take charge of the giving. His philanthropy is hands-on since he thinks institutions frequently are sloppy. Patterson decided a while back that he'd rather be a successful popular novelist than a mediocre literary one.
He is philosophical about the critics of his craft. He says he considers himself, above all else, to be an entertainer. He has succeeded. Whether you believe him to be a writer or a brand manager, he has provided an immense number of people with lots of reading entertainment. If that's a brand, then it works, people recognize it and want more of it.
Hard to really find fault with any of it. A blog about books. Rare books. James Patterson: Author or Brand Manager? By Shelley Kelber. Mar 22, Patterson and Co-Authorship: A Team Effort He delivers exhaustive notes and outlines that can run to 80 pages to his co-authors. Patterson Gives Back In more recent years, Patterson has devoted his time and money to promoting literacy and supporting local bookstores.
Conclusion Patterson decided a while back that he'd rather be a successful popular novelist than a mediocre literary one. His total bibliography is upwards of He is, without doubt, one of the most prodigious literary figures that the world has ever seen. He is engagingly transparent about his process: co-authors work from a narrative framework provided by Patterson, who either then rewrites what they come up with or provides notes on bi-weekly drafts.
The narrative frameworks he provides emerge from his understanding of the literary market, informed by his years of experience as an advertising executive. He has been described as a co-publisher, more of a brand than a writer. Using digital methods, if sufficient samples are available, the extent to which someone actively contributes to the actual words of a text can be tested.
The field is called stylometry, and it has been used in author attribution studies involving popular figures like Harper Lee and Rowling. A colleague and I applied stylometric methods to the work of Patterson in order to form an impression of how much he contributes to the writing of his books in terms of the actual words used. Is it mainly an endorsement, a valuable moniker which generates sales?
Or is he properly seen as an author, just one who is attracted to the possibilities of narrative structure over those of language? Critics tend to value style over structure, yet the public are clearly drawn towards the latter.
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