(Chris Sorensen For The Washington Post) (Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post) (Chris Sorensen/for The Washington Post)īRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else.
His author bio: “James Patterson has written more bestsellers and created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist today.” Beloved by critics and peers? Not so much. But his popularity among readers remains incontrovertible.
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He is an industry unto himself.Īnd now the author of popular thrillers - and children’s books and young adult novels and romances and mysteries - has launched BookShots, a series of short, cheap, plot-propelled novels directed at an audience more prone to reading smartphones than print. “In this day and age, when so many people have decided to spend so much of their lives not reading books, I think to create a new habit for them is a smart thing,” says Patterson, 69, perched in the summer study of his Hudson Valley home, the room dominated by a sleigh bed where he reads and edits. The trick? “I’ve taken the fat out of commercial novels,” he says.
“In an awful lot of novels, there’s more in them than there should be.” The sentences are simple and declarative.Ĭhapters are hiccups.
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“Every single chapter is conceived to move the plot and the characterization forward,” he says, “and to turn on the movie projectors in our heads.” (Want to write like this? You can! Through the online James Patterson MasterClass!) Verbs outnumber adjectives, which Patterson appears to view as the literary equivalent of parsley.
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