Q & A …

… James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell Like Crazy - Speakeasy - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

When it comes to writing, he has a well-practiced system: he writes a detailed outline and then hires someone—often a former colleague from his advertising days—to write the ensuing scenes, usually in 30 to 40 page chunks. He will review those pages every few weeks, sometimes providing notes on them and other times re-writing them entirely.