James Patterson
speaker
661 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is there a better way to do this?
I'm friendly with Steve Schwartzman, the Blackstone guy.
And at a certain point, he and Pete Peterson, they just said, there's a better way.
And they started Blackstone.
In the book business,
When I went in there, it was like, you do a book a year or every two years, and that's the deal.
And I went, why is that?
Maybe, but what's the rule there that I'm missing?
I remember there was a meeting, and I went in, and I'd started the Alice Cross books, and they were very successful, so they were listening to me a little bit.
And I said, this year I want to do three books.
And I said, I want to do Alice Quest.
He said, good, good, good.
And then there's another thriller, Summer House, that I want to do.
And I said, okay, oh, that's great, great, great.
And then I told him another story.
Suzanne started for Nicholas, and it was a love story, tragic love story.
And when I told it, the head of Little Brown started crying.
And then at the end of it, he said, well, we want to do the Alice Cross in the summer, but we don't want to do the love story because it's not your brand.
And I said, well, I don't really think of myself as a brand, but I think this is a really good story.
And I think if there is a brand, it's that when James does a book,
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