The team functions much like other imprints with a diverse list of authors-with distinct sales, subrights, art, publicity, editorial, and marketing departments. Patterson also touched on the advantage of a consistent working relationship with his partners at the company, saying it was “nice to know people over decades,” while characterizing Hachette staffers as “smart people who love books and are dedicated to getting people reading.” Combining his adult and children’s titles, Patterson has sold 325 million books worldwide. “But I think we’ve also had tremendous advantage over other imprints in finding and honing the best ways to publish books consistently and well because of this very fact-that we’ve been working mostly with one author.” Rust noted that the majority of publishers have to “split their focus looking upstream” to authors and agents, and downstream to booksellers and to readers.īecause of Patterson’s consistency and dedication to Little, Brown and the team, “we’ve been able to focus our attention on the reader-facing side of the publishing process,” Rust said, “the nuts and bolts, the ins and outs of getting books into readers’ hands.” And there’s no questioning Patterson’s reach-the worldwide total sales for Patterson’s three biggest adult series, Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, and Michael Bennett, are 88 million, 56 million, and 20 million, respectively. “Jim’s storytelling instincts and his understanding of what readers want have been the bedrock of this operation’s success,” Rust said. According to Rust, the changes this year will make Patterson’s prior years look “tame” in terms of “sheer innovation and scale,” though he said that the single-focus of the last decade has given his team a publishing edge.
September will see the release of Stalking Jack the Ripper, a debut YA novel by Kerri Maniscalco, the first time an author besides Patterson has been published within the James Patterson division. On March 21, the new imprint, which published its first title in September, will release its first original book, Jacky Ha-Ha, a middle grade novel by Patterson and Chris Grabenstein.
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