James Patterson dishes on the unpublished “killing Stephen King”

James Patterson Be honest about his complex history with the author of his best -selling colleagues Stephen KingAnd it is not late for tension.

In a new interview with Graham Benninger, James Patterson, known as the Wild Exciting Heroes, opened a potential cooperation with King, and the sharp JABS that they exchanged over the years, and the drama behind the scenes surrounding his unpublished novel entitled “The killing of Stephen King”.

When asked about a A common interview project, “We will see what is happening,” Patterson said, adding that his team has communicated with Kings. “I love to do it. I think it will be great.”

He also explained, “One of the things I said to his people was,” See, we can do some good in the world. We can get more children read. There are a lot of things that we can do if we cooperate a little. “

The olive branch comes despite some harsh history between the authors. At one time, King Shahira Patterson described as a “terrible writer”, something that Patterson does not deny.

“This is just ridiculous,” he said. “He may have read a terrible thing …” The season of the sickle “is a terrible book I wrote. So if he reads that, I saw that he called me a terrible writer.”

Patterson added, “The Virgin” is also terribly well written. ” Jericho will, “Some early books are not great. I can be in line with it. I don’t know about” terrible “, but I have evolved. I’m good now.”

But the drama did not end there.

Patterson also addressed his notorious novel, “The killing of Stephen King”, who never saw Nour today.

Was he trying to tamper with the king? “Yes, but in an enjoyable way,” Patterson admitted. “He was the hero of the book. He was not killing.”

The Novela was part of the BookShots line, and according to him, it was intended to honor your tongue. But when I send a prior version to King, the reaction was not completely expected.

Patterson said: “He called his people. “I am going,” well, I don’t know. Then he should stop writing his books, because that happened because of his books, and not because of “the killing of Stephen King”. He is the hero in the book … I thought it would be funny. “

Ultimately, the novel was canceled, and all 100,000 copies were canceled.

“We have eaten it,” Patterson said. “They didn’t publish it. You want to buy a copy? I have 20 copies. I will sell it for $ 10,000.”

As for why pulling the plug? “With respect. Well. Well … his wife, whatever. We have just said,” well, well. We will not publish it. “

Conflict or cooperating in the future? With Patterson and King, you never know, but it is clear that these two literary fondness have a common history like any excitement.

While Patterson heard everything when it comes to criticizing his writing style, he did not disturb him because, for him, everything about the story.

“If you tell a good story, you shouldn’t necessarily be a great writer,” he said. “Freida (MCFADNEN), whatever it is, is not a great writer, but really good stories. A lot of my things. Grisham, maybe, I don’t mean to cancel John, but let’s not say a great designer. But good stories.”

Patterson point? Readers are interested in staying awake all night and turning pages, which they do around the structure of the poetic sentence.