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...mansion is James Patterson. He is the author of 34 books, the last 18 of which have gone to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. All told he's sold about 100 million copies; last year they earned him something on the order of $40 million. At 58, Patterson puts out four or five books annually: mysteries, thrillers, romance novels, fantasy--he takes all comers. He's already got one out in 2006, The 5th Horseman, and it's only March. Patterson is the world's greatest best-seller factory, and depending on how you look...
...point I'll just take it over and write as many as seven drafts. There were a couple of them that really were a mess," he adds ruefully. "At least twice it's been, 'I wish that I just started this thing myself.'" It's rare for big-name authors to use co-writers, and rarer still for them to do it openly, but readers don't seem to mind. "When he first published a book with a co-author on the cover, we watched the performance of that book very nervously," says Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch, who edits...
...Michael Ramsey, picks up where Petrocelli left off. Courtroom observers are impressed with the case the prosecution is building up and warn that keeping Fastow on the stand risks taking the focus away from the defendants. "Fastow?s testimony was dangerous for both sides,? said Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. "If the government is smart, it will close down its case as soon...
Pregnant women may want to think twice before their next trip to the taqueria, according to a study published in the monthly research journal, “Environmental Health Perspectives.” The study—authored by Stacey A. Missmer of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a team of researchers here and in Texas—correlates the over-consumption of corn tortillas with neural-tube defects (NTDs) in unborn children. Often debilitating and sometimes fatal, NTDs such as anencephaly and spina bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas...
...Similarly, the bill papers over the central power struggle under way between Congress and the White House. President Bush's advisors have repeatedly argued that when Congress authorizes the use of military force, the President is above the law when acting as Commander in Chief. Other than the Constitution, they argue, the Commander in Chief in wartime does not need to abide by laws that have been passed by Congress, period. This position scares even some on the right wing of the Republican party, but it is a bigger fight than any one Senator can tackle. Says Mike Dawson...