by vjbooks | Apr 29, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
James Patterson is set to add another name to his list of collaborators: Liza Marklund. Marklund is Scandinavia’s bestselling female crime writer. The announcement came Friday afternoon via a blog post by “Lindsay Boxerette” on Patterson’s social-networking site. The...
by vjbooks | Apr 28, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Even before he had a word published by himself, Andrew Gross was a best-selling author as one of James Patterson’s co-writers. Six novels, including “The Women’s Murder Club” series, put Gross’s work on many best-sellers lists. But Gross...
by vjbooks | Apr 23, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
According to Bookscan, the Women’s Murder Club series is the bestselling U.S. detective series in the past decade; Patterson’s Alex Cross series is #1 over the last 20 years. Publisher’s Weekly review called 7th Heaven “gripping” and...
by vjbooks | Apr 22, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
We are pleased to bring you great new titles by some wonderful authors. Larwrence Block, Greg Rucka, and James Huston have been some of our top selling authors for years, and what could we possibly say about a new Chuck Palahnuik title except “stand...
by vjbooks | Apr 9, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 30) (And who could blame you: it’s been two weeks since Little, Brown released Max, the fifth in the author’s Maximum Ride YA series.) Fret not coming next week is 7th Heaven, the latest paperback Women’s Murder Club...
by vjbooks | Apr 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...
by vjbooks | Mar 4, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
Avi Arad, the producer behind the Spider Man and X Men movies has bought MAXIMUM RIDE and is working on the movie for Sony Pictures.
by vjbooks | Feb 22, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 16, Carlisle Webber) Persuading adults to read YA literature Overheard in a library: “This is a teen novel? I don’t want it then. I just want regular James Patterson.” The patron was holding the copy of Maximum Ride that she had...
by vjbooks | Feb 16, 2009 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Summary for Maximum Ride 5: MAX by James Patterson The latest installment in James Patterson’s series (Maximum Ride 5) for our younger audiences is now available to order. Check it out! Comfortable in their new safe house, Max and the rest of the Flock finally...
by vjbooks | Jan 27, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Opening paragraph from Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffany’s: “Michael was running as fast as he could, racing down, thickly congested streets toward New York Hospital – Jane was dying there – when suddenly a scene from the past came back to...
by vjbooks | Jan 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(blogs.thetimes.co.za, Nov. 26) Forbes Magazine has released its list of the world’s highest paid authors. In a year when financial returns are a great source of consternation, some writers have still managed to rake in the cash. Top of the list is unsurprisingly J.K...
by vjbooks | Jan 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(expressindia.com, Jan. 7) January releases will have detective-fiction lovers jump for joy How many times in the Conan Doyle mysteries does Sherlock Holmes say, “Elementary, my dear Watson”? If you’re a true-blue, detective-fiction lover, you’ll know that Holmes...
