(It turned out Nikitas and Robinson had a mutual friend.) Was Nikitas interested? An email arrived for him one morning in September 2015, from Bill Robinson, co-president of James Patterson Entertainment and director of brand development for publisher Little, Brown & Co.ĭuring a follow-up phone call, Robinson said Patterson was developing a new line of short novels called BookShots, and was looking for authors. Nikitas, 42, said his work with Patterson came as a surprise. He has help, in the form of coauthors and collaborators, among them Derek Nikitas, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. Go to a library, or a bookstore, and Patterson takes up a wide swath of shelf space.īut he doesn't do it all by himself. Bestselling author James Patterson is a writing machine who has produced a whole lot of books - 147 according to his Wikipedia entry.
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