In a recent article in The Guardian, novelist James Patterson is heralded as the world’s “best paid writer.” But this is a misnomer. Patterson doesn’t write all (or any?) of his books anymore. He isn’t the world’s best paid writer; his is the world’s most successful fiction factory. The article’s use of the term “brand” is more appropriate than perhaps the writer intended. James Frey is doing the same thing. (See this New York Magazine article.) His Full Fathom Five publishing house recruits desperate, unknown writers, mostly MFA students drowning Read More …