20 June 2016
Since March, we've heard about a forthcoming publishing venture from James Patterson, the best-selling novelist of the age. "To date," writes the New York Times, "[Patterson] has published 156 books that have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide." Or, rather, he relies on a stable of more than twenty co-authors to churn out his novels in what appears to be a tightly orchestrated Fordist scheme. BookShots, his new imprint with Hachette, will accelerate this output by producing short, plot-heavy, "cinematic" novellas. No fewer than twenty-three of these "shots" will be sprayed on readers throughout the remainder of 2016. And the spraying began last Monday.
