Fiction Factories: The Good, The Bad, and The Indifferent Side of Publishing

A recent post by Jim Thomsen, Six Things We Can Learn From James Patterson , got me thinking about fiction factories (a relatively new phrase in publishing) and what, if any, is their value both to the reader and the writer. I have used James Patterson as an example because he is, quite simply, the biggest, and thus the best example.


A recent Times article outlines some facts about James Patterson's writing (being the most successful of this phenomenon) which sees him churning out books by the ...