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Originally Posted by Hellmark
I remember on the TV show Castle, he was at his regular authors poker game, and guys like James Patterson were giving him crap because he was only writing a book a year, and how he needs to stop slacking. I'm sorry, but, Patterson is a poster child for being overly published. From 1976 to 1999, so over 23 years, Patterson wrote 17 books. from 2000 to 2004 he wrote 3 books a year. In 2011, he published his 89th book, and he has 13 books scheduled for release in 2012. At that high of a rate, how can you expect any level of quality?
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All but three of them seem to be 'written with...'. It seems like he still writes the Maximum Ride and Alex Cross books himself.
IOW he isn't actually writing most of the books, but has become a franchise, in the way that Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler have, making money by adding his name to books written by a stable of other authors.
You write a basic outline and farm it out to someone else to write.