James Patterson Nearly Done With Those Seventeen Books
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At a book party earlier this week, James Patterson told Motoko Rich that he has already started or completed fourteen of the seventeen books he is hilariously signed on to write for Hachette Book Group by 2012. We can only assume he means since the deal was announced last week. [ArtsBeat/NYT]

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