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In reply to the discussion: Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all]anobserver2
(922 posts)13. And this: page 259 of his memoir (an unnumbered page)
Last edited Sun Jun 12, 2022, 07:38 AM - Edit history (1)
I thought it strange that he insists to the Harvard Business Review:
"Everyone likes it. Nobody quits....Nobody leaves."
And then in his memoir, right after his testimonials about his writing factory, you read this section title:
"nobody moves,
nobody gets hurt"
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Well! If you are one of his writers -- who IS scared of him -- then it seems to me you might be hearing him
telling you what sounds to me like: a threat ( "nobody moves, nobody gets hurt" ). I mean he certainly could have
chosen to place this section ANYWHERE ELSE in this convoluted non-linear memoir.
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Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all]
anobserver2
Jun 2022
OP
It seems he has promoted two versions of the structure of his writing factory
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#14
PS Here's the NY Post article about the lawsuit a writer filed against Patterson
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#16
Also: Patterson's new memoir makes no mention of any lawsuit against him by a writer
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#17
Two organizations for writers in the writing factory - Author's Guild and National Writers Union
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#18
When I have time I will write a list of discrepencies I found in this memoir
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#8
From June 20, 2022 New Yorker magazine: "How James Patterson Became the World's Best-Selling Author"
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#26
Deception #11 in Memoir: Money, and Pages 120-121 - "the fine art of negociating"
anobserver2
Jun 2022
#41