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All right, ladies and gentlemen.
You know how excited to get about my

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authors and I'm always talking about my
Women's Murder Club, and James Patterson happens

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to be the genius behind all of
those, one of my favorite authors on

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the entire planet, taking time out
of his day to chat with us.

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Hi, James, how are you? Hey? I'm good. You know

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when you're in a lot of my
territory. I kind of grew up in

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Lexington, mass spent a lot of
time on the Cape as a kid,

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and my our son went to Brown
so we spent a lot of time in

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Providence. So a lot of New
England stuff in our blood. Well,

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ah, my sisters in Maine.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, listen.

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We even have something closer that you
don't even know about. So I unfortunately

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had to have Ah, this is
ridiculous, just gloss over the surgery part,

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but I ended up having to have
eye surgery. And you were coming

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to the Mark Twain House and my
friend Jacques was putting it on and I

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was supposed to be there and I
couldn't go, and I was heartbroken.

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I had my tickets and everything because
you are literally so she got you signed

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a book The Eleventh Hour. You
signed it for me and I have a

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yeah, yeah, man, that
was great. You know, Mark Twain

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is terrific. Well, and that
brings me, you know, to the

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current thing, which is similar like
if you wrote a book about Mark Twain.

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The idea of Holmes, Marble and
Pope. I took it out to

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Hollywood and I said to him,
I said, you all ought to just

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buy this on the title Marple and
Poe, and they did. But you

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think about it as a crime solving
team, Oh my god. You know,

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Alice Cross will go out of the
Women's Murder Club and they're they're really

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good at it. But when you
get you know, Sherlock Holmes level of

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quality, Miss Marple and then and
then Edgar Allan Poe, and they're all

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descendants of not of the fictional characters, which would be kind of bizarre but

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interesting, but they're you know,
Holmes is a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle,

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and Marple in the books is a
descendant of Agarthur Christie, and then

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Poe obviously a descendant of eded Grell
and Pope. But it's really it's a

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great crime solving team, and it's
if you like the Women's Murder Club.

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I think you love it. It's
it's a really cool uh team, and

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they and they're together and they they
all live in one building, which is

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interesting, and they have this wonderful
library which has all of everything that all

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the show like called stuff, all
the christy stuff, all the you know.

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So it's just fun. And obviously
I'm excited about it because I'm babbling.

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Well, no, you babble away. And now it was just released

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on the Ace, so it's very
new to everybody. Holmes, Marple and

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Poe by James Patterson and O'Brian Sits. And I'll tell you what, I

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am so excited about this book that
I am a a. I have to

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hold a book in my hands,
so I will buy the hardcover and I

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will enjoy it and I will be
taken away as you always do with your

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your readers. James, you found
that that key, that magical key that

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unlocks just theater of the mind,
which is why it's what is your process?

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I have to ask you? And
in combining this trio of like legendary

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and iconic names together, where on
earth did this came? We start with

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I always start with the idea that
I I find interesting that I'm excited,

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that I'm passionate about about moving it
forward. And then I'll do a long

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outline I just finished. When it's
one hundred and ten chapter outline, it's

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about seventy pages. That's just the
outline, you know, So that's where

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I start. That's just you know, in terms of the way I tell

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stories, and it's always just scene
after scene after scene after seene, which

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you know, for me, it
makes it a little easier. And you

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know, like for this one,
I might you know, like put on

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a couple of pieces of paper all
the potential home scenes and all the potential

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Marble scenes and then the ones we're
there together, and you know, and

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and then ultimately it's almost like you
being in an editing room if you're editing

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a movie and you take all the
scenes and decide what the strike, you

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know, what the order should be. So it's interesting that you have all

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of these characters combined. And we
never want to give anything away, obviously

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we want people to read the book, but I do have to ask you,

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how did you or how were you
able to weave them all together,

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because they're all leading characters. Yeah, well that's the fun of it.

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But they're friends, I mean in
terms of the book, and they get

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along well, and they start a
well here's a little piece from from the

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book which in terms of homes Markling
Paul investigations, he said, you plicked

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a business card from his wallet with
the flare of an illusionist. Samantha took

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it home s Markling poet. She
said, Is that a joke? Holmes

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leaned over the desk. Absolutely not. We're private investigators, the best there

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is, you know, And that's
that's a little spirit of it. You

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know, it's I just got goosebumps
because when you have your favorite author reading

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to you, it's kind of like
a moment to savor. But you know,

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with all of your books and through
all of the years and all of

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the different characters, and you also
work with a lot of people, what

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is it like to collaborate and how
important is it to you in your career

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to share some of your success and
and bring people along with you. I

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obviously I couldn't do all of the
books that I do if I didn't have

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some help. And it's really important
that the people I work with that we

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get along. I've never had an
argument with any of them honestly, which

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is which is interesting, Like President
Clinton, no problems, Dolly Parton,

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no problems. I just finished one. Uh well, Michael Crichton is deceased,

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but his estate came to me to
finish a book about a volcano in

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Hawaii. It's it's great, it's
coming out in June. You know.

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Obviously no problems. But the estate
also it didn't give me any problems.

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So so yeah, and it's And
I always want to work with people that

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that that I that I enjoy it
and I want to stimulate them, and

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they stimulate me, so it's good. Let me ask you a question,

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So do you do you still like
to hold a book or have you moved

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on to where you're okay with digital
reading. I'm I'm mainly a hold of

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book person a case only. I'll
read something online or on ebooks or you

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know, I do emails and stuff, but I for the most part,

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I want to hold the book.
I want I want to. I have

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a copy of host Marble Paul right
here in front of me, and it's

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it's still a joy. It's still
a thrill. It's just a cool thing

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to me. I'm lucky I grew
up in a small town and a blessing

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for me is I still see the
world through the eye. So that's the

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kid in that small town. I'm
like, this is cool. I'm doing

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radio. I'm on radio today.
Yay. I wrote a book. Yay.

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That's fun. Uh yeah, well, and let's you know, I

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know we're talking about Holmes, Marple
and Poe, now available by James Patterson.

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I'll have all the links up and
I will be reading this. I

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promise you that. But I'm just
you know, I love your your foray

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into children's books. I love that
you love animals. I'm a huge uh

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animal advocate here in our state.
And I love your your your writing for

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children. And where how do you
switch that? Like? What's that which

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where? Okay, there's not a
murder scene. This is a child's book.

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Thinking about the kids. Books that
I do, most of them are

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are are humorous. So that's that's
it. That's the cool change. And

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to be able to write, you
know, life funny or something. If

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it's serious it is called life funny. You better better be moderately funny.

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There are middle school is the worst
years of my life, which is funny

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title. So you know, I
have a few more going. We have

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one time travel twins. I think
it's this year for kids. So that's

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that's very funny too. So that's
a nice thing for me to be able

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to do some comedy. You know. I look at reading, and I

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look at the way we are now, and I do. I go to

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schools often and I do some reading, and I love to see the I

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want to give a real nice,
big props to our teachers here in Connecticut

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and New England because the schools that
I'm going to even making it more important

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for reading now and holding books and
I'm still doing that in the classrooms at

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a young age. You know,
obviously, this is your life, this

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is what you've You've built your your
career and your passion on and reading and

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being an author. But just how
important you was reading growing up? It

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wasn't Weirdly, my mother was a
teacher, and you know what it is.

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And this is I think also important
a lot of places, the schools,

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the school boards, whatever. If
the objective is to get kids reading,

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if that's the objective, okay,
and it's it's a noble objective,

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then don't give them books that they're
not going to like. And that doesn't

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mean dumb down. That just means
good stories. There are a lot of

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really really good books, really useful, very valuable books that have stories.

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But if you give books, kids
a lot of books that they're just going

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to I hated, I didn't really
like it. That's it just defeats the

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purposes. No so, And that's
a little what happened to me in Catholic

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school growing up. And then you
know, weirdly I was I worked my

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way through college at a mental hospital
and in Lexington, man or not Lexington,

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in Belmont, and I started reading
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I mean we went to Cambridge three
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pick up books. It was all
serious stuff. But that that really just

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turned me on. But but if
you want to turn kids off, just

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keep school boards, keep giving them
books that they go I hate it.

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That'll that'll stop them from reading.
And it's so stupid. It's just you

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just want to go and shake these
people a little bit. Now I'm gonna

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I know, I don't have a
lot of time with you, and I'm

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getting I know I'm gonna have to
wrap soon. But I do want to

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go back to homes marble and post
I think we actually have to wrap because

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I'm heading out west now. I
want the next one. No, listen,

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I appreciate you, and I can't
wait to chat again, and I

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can't wait to read Holmes Marble.
And thank you, thank you, thank

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you, Renee, Bye bye