Forbes: James Patterson as the Highest Paid Author

By David

According to Forbes, James Patterson was the highest paid author last year, scoring a sweet US$70 million.

His current $100 million book deal requires him to write 17 books by the end of 2012. According to an article in my paper, he has admitted that he doesn't even write his books - instead, he has a team of five to help him with his storytelling. Wow. Great.


The top 10 highest paid book authors (according to Forbes) are as follows:

1. James Patterson, $70 million

2. Stephanie Meyer, $40 million

3. Stephen King, $34 million

4. Danielle Steel, $32 million

5. Ken Follett, $20 million

6. Dean Koontz, $18 million

7. Janet Evanovich, $16 million

8. John Grisham, $15 million

9. Nicholas Sparks, $14 million

10. J.K. Rowling, $10 million

Below is a copy of James Patterson's Along Came a Spider, featuring the popular hero Alex Cross. My father loved this book; this was published back in the good days, when Patterson still (at least I hope) wrote his books and didn't shit out a mass number of them within a short period of time.
 

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