{"id":6513,"date":"2015-05-31T18:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T01:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T01:48:37","slug":"6513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/31\/6513\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Please give me another book.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Bend, Oregon’s The Bulletin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Best-selling author to launch imprint for children\u2019s books<\/h1>\n

By Alexandra Alter \/ New York Times News Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Novelist James Patterson is so prolific, his annual output rivals that of many small publishing houses. Last year, with help from his stable of co-authors, he published 16 novels and sold around 20 million copies of his books.<\/p>\n

Now Patterson is seeking to extend his brand further, by creating his own publishing imprint, Jimmy Patterson.<\/p>\n

The imprint, which will be part of Little, Brown & Co., will release eight to 12 children\u2019s books a year, with a focus on middle grade and young adult fiction.<\/p>\n

Patterson will oversee it all, choosing manuscripts and shaping the marketing plan for each title. He will publish four to six of his own children\u2019s books a year under the new imprint and will acquire books by other writers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to buy a lot of books, but if we buy them, we\u2019re going to publish them with gusto,\u201d said Patterson, who announced the initiative during BookExpo America, the publishing industry\u2019s annual trade convention.<\/p>\n

A handful of other writers have moved into publishing roles and created their own imprints and book packaging businesses. Author Lizzie Skurnick started a young adult imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books, which publishes new editions of classic young adult novels dating from the 1930s to the 1980s. Novelists Lauren Oliver and James Frey both created their own book packaging companies, allowing them to acquire and commission works by other writers and sell them to publishers.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at The Bulletin<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Bend, Oregon’s The Bulletin Best-selling author to launch imprint for children\u2019s books By Alexandra Alter \/ New York Times News Service Novelist James Patterson is so prolific, his annual output rivals that of many small publishing houses. Last year, with help from his stable of co-authors, he published 16 novels and sold around 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}