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How James Patterson publishes so many novels

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If you ever wondered how one man releases 20 books a year, spoiler alert: he doesn't write them all. Patterson operates more like a literary CEO, providing outlines to an army of co-authors who actually bash out the prose. He then reviews the drafts, slaps his massive, brand-name font on the cover, and cashes the checks.

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