Hi, all, forgot to check in on my blog. :) Frank, glad you enjoyed the book. Jim and I are working on a new Women's Murder Club book now. It's shaping up very well and it's cool to be working with him to make an idea into a fully realized story. Enjoy your summer, everyone.
Lol, Patricia, Naturally, I hope I won't have to be sharing credit with Jim on my tombstone anytime soon! Having way too much fun. :) Jim tells a story in an essay he wrote for my book called "How to Put Your Book Together and Get a Job in Advertising." He wrote: "When I was a boy, in the summers, I used to spend every Tuesday riding with my grandfather on his delivery route. "My grandfather had a truly awful voice and he used to sing every morning at 5:30 a.m. as he drove over the Storm King Mountains in upstate New York. "He told me he really didn't care what I became when I grew up -- the President, a ditch-digger -- the only important thing was that I sang a happy song as I went to work every morning. "And I do." I certainly didn't know that Jim would turn out to be the success he became -- but, I know that he is pretty fearless, can multi-task like no one else I know, and loves to tell a great story. Next time I talk to him, I've gotta remember to ask him to sing. :)
Hello, again friends, Thank you for your affirmative postings. I do feel very lucky to be doing something I love to do, to work with a long- time friend and to be able to express myself through the actions of such gutsy fictitious characters. "The Ninth Victim" is the next installment of the Women's Murder Club. It will be coming out in 2010 and Jim has shared plans with me for more WMC books to come. We are working on another series -- it's a secret right now, but I think those of you who enjoy James Patterson books will be delighted with this new series. Meanwhile, "Swimsuit" entered the New York Times best sellers list this past Sunday at #1. The killer in this book, Henri Benoit, is certainly evil, but he is a very compelling, complex and haunting bad guy. I hope you'll have a chance to travel the world with him and with his adversary, journalist, Ben Hawkins. I don't think you will be bored for a second or a page! I enjoyed blogging today, my first blog, ever. And I'm looking forward to signing a book to today's contest winner.
Hi, everyone, thanks so much for the wonderful e-mails. I've enjoyed reading your messages to me so much. Jim has been quite an inspiration to me. Not to get sloppy here, :) but he's not just very very smart, he's funny, too.
Here's a little true story. About a year ago, I said that it had gotten to the point that my name was so linked with his, that I thought for sure his name would be in my tombstone. Maxine Paetro, co- writer with James Patterson... lol. He said, deadpan, "Why would your name be first?" I said, "My body?" He said, "James Patterson presents..." I still laugh when I remember this. :)
Thanks for your comments, everyone. I think Swimsuit is a terrific read: :) altho a bit graphic for the squeamish reader. we go far afield in this book. Glamorous locations, European cities and a very, very creepy killer. and so smart.
Carrie, I think Jim is the only mentor I ever had. And for a one-mentor life, I sure got lucky. Oh, yeah and then there's the part about working self half to death. :) Can't overstate the working to get better, raising the bar on yourself, and working some more.
Carrie, I think Jim is the only mentor I ever had. And for a one-mentor life, I sure got lucky. Oh, yeah and then there's the part about working self half to death. :) Can't understate the working to get better, raising the bar on yourself, and working some more.
Hi, Bridget! Thanks for the support. "9th Victim" is at the publishers now, expected pub date 2010. Three other WMC books are on the schedule. Somewhere, Lindsay Boxer is clapping. :)
Good morning and thank you, guys. Writing wasn't a fully formed dream until I was 38 years old. I scribbled in journals my whole life, but when I wrote a book called "How To Put Your Book Together and Get a Job in Advertising," I was told that I was a writer; that I had something called "voice" and "cadence." That's what made me write my first magazine story, to see if I was really a writer. I say this to anyone who is having the writer's dream in mid-life.
And btw, that first little book was written to help "kids" get into advertising and they did. "How To" is still in print after more than 30 years and is going into a new edition with a new publisher next year. :)
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