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PUBLISHING POWERHOUSE

IT’S hard to get your head around how phenomenally productive he is.

He releases about 14 books a year, and many of them go on to become bestsellers – and that’s why James Patterson is the world’s most successful living author.

Critics often dismiss his work as “formulaic” and scoff at how he leaps between genres and teams up with co-writers to help him plot and research his books, but readers can’t

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