In what is probably a first in the world of fiction, the singer will also release an album of songs inspired by the book. James with Morgan Freeman at the premiere of the film Along Came A Spider, based on his bookĮarlier this year he released his second novel co-authored with Bill Clinton, The President’s Daughter, and next year he and country music star Dolly Parton will launch a novel they have written together, Run, Rose, Run, about a young women who goes to Nashville to pursue her music-making dreams. So all of a sudden people were interested in the story.”Īmong his over 150 books during his four-decade-long career, James has also written other non-fiction works, including one on John Lennon’s last days – he was living in New York on the day the Beatle was shot, and now lives in Palm Beach, Florida, next to a house John and Yoko owned.īut it is his gripping, pager-turner crime fiction books which have turned James into a worldwide phenomenon, with an estimated fortune of £560million. But when the story broke it wasn’t because of the girls, it wasn’t that anyone cared about the girls, it was because Alexander Acosta, who approved a plea deal that let him off, was made Trump’s Secretary of Labor. “Then in 2019 all of a sudden it blew up. I said, ‘What do you mean what’s the big deal, and you kidding? This billionaire assaulted hundreds of young girls, as young as 13, 14, that’s the big deal’. I remember taking the thing to CNN, Fox, NBC, and other networks here, I went there personally, and they said, ‘What’s the big deal?’. “It was difficult to get publicity for it. “I put that out two or three years before that story really broke big, which is crazy. I wasn’t going to regret anything because everything we put in the book was accurate. “I’m not one to take credit for stuff, but at the time it was scary because I was getting letters from Epstein’s attorneys every couple of weeks, telling me, ‘it’s wrong, don’t do this, you’re going to regret it’. He says: “I brought attention to that story right from the beginning, when no-one else was interested. James remembers how it was one of the hardest of his books to get any publicity for.
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The Parton novel, Run, Rose, Run, will be out in March.When the book was published, Epstein, alongside close friend Ghislaine Maxwell, whose trial on sex trafficking charges is due to start next week, was still free and rubbing elbows with some of the world’s richest and most powerful men. Within his army of ghostwriters and co-writers-the well-known secret to maintaining Patterson’s production pace-are high-profile collaborators like President Bill Clinton (who once gave Patterson a Monopoly: Socialism board game) and Dolly Parton (she calls him “J.J.” or “Jimmy James”). He’s even created an industry within the industry with his BookShots: short novellas made for dwindling attention spans. Patterson, 74, has donated millions of books and dollars to schools, Army bases, libraries, independent bookstores and literacy organizations, including a 2018 partnership with the University of Florida to support educators in boosting reading levels across the state. In 2019, he won the National Humanities Medal. His debut novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, earned him an Edgar Award. Most have been bestsellers, making him one of the wealthiest living authors, earning about $80 million in a year, according to the most recent estimate by Forbes. “I love that word,” he says sarcastically, though it’s hard to find a better adjective to capture the more than 300 books he’s written since 1976 (averaging almost seven every year). James Patterson gets annoyed at being called prolific.
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