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Speaker 1: James Patterson. You've already released four books this year, and

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Speaker 1: you have five available for as somewhat as someone whose

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Speaker 1: favorite hobby is to read. I wish I had one

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Speaker 1: good book in me. I mean, that's just amazing.

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Speaker 2: You know, prolific and good. Yeah, I have a big imagination.

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Speaker 2: You're my time here is short. What can I do

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Speaker 2: most beautifully? Yeah? And for me, it's writing stories that

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Speaker 2: people can't put down.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's just how I like them.

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Speaker 2: Well, we got we've got a couple of them. What

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Speaker 2: we got the Women's Murder Club, which is you know,

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Speaker 2: Alice crosses all over the place because he's on Prime

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Speaker 2: Video and whatever, but actually the biggest around the world

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Speaker 2: is a women's murder club. So we got a new one,

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Speaker 2: twenty five alive. Yes, and it's all about these four

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Speaker 2: women who you know wants a homicide detective, Ones, a sister,

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Speaker 2: da Ones, a lawyer, and they're the kind of friends

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Speaker 2: we all wish we had, Yes, and they and they

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Speaker 2: love to get together and solve murders very good times.

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Speaker 3: What you mentioned the prolific, we said, prolific and great.

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Speaker 3: But Mike, what are your fans like? They obviously they

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Speaker 3: rolled up to books, signings and heard.

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Speaker 2: They're all love it. They love to hear. They love

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Speaker 2: to hear a good story. Everybody does, you know exactly,

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Speaker 2: And that's what I try to do. The other one

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Speaker 2: that's that's I think out right now is Two Sisters

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Speaker 2: Murder Investigation and it's kind of the weird family business.

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Speaker 2: Two two sisters, ones sixteen years old and she's you know,

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Speaker 2: sort of Internet obsessed and the other one is sort

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Speaker 2: of a lawyer, just in minded kind of lawyer and

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Speaker 2: they don't get along on anything, but they're really they're

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Speaker 2: really fun. And actually I wrote that one with Candace Fox,

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Speaker 2: who was a very good Australian writer. So those two,

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Speaker 2: the Two Sisters Murder Investigations, and then and then The

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Speaker 2: Woman to Murder Club.

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Speaker 1: I think we spoked to Canada when the last one

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Speaker 1: came out. And I love what you write with Candace

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Speaker 1: Fox doing. But do you enjoy collaborating with other people?

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Speaker 2: Candice No, Oh, no, my god, she's awful. She no,

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Speaker 2: she's great. I do. I do. She's really a lot

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Speaker 2: of thing. He has a big imagination. She's very lively

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Speaker 2: and she's got a new little daughter, not so new

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Speaker 2: right now, but yeah, yeah, So so, yeah, we we

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Speaker 2: have a We have a great time doing our books.

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Speaker 2: And two sisters. There's a lot of fun and it's funnier.

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Speaker 2: The one is were club isn't as funny as two sisters.

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Speaker 2: A lot of that is Candace because she's off the wall,

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Speaker 2: and and between the two of us, I think we

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Speaker 2: tell a pretty good story.

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Speaker 3: Please tell us only birthday on the weekend that you

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Speaker 3: didn't work? Were you please not writing? Were you doing

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Speaker 3: something to spoil yourself on my birthday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we had her son down here and and

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Speaker 2: my three sisters and and they all love me, but

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Speaker 2: they don't like each other. So it was perfect, just

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Speaker 2: like just like Canda, just like Ronda and baby Bird

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Speaker 2: and two sisters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, James minus three?

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Speaker 1: Right, you and I share a birthday. Actually mine was

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Speaker 1: on Saturday as well well someday.

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Speaker 2: Oh really birthday at James, I've been one happy birthday

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Speaker 2: birthday weeks. Anyway, did you hear that classic? Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 2: get another present, James.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you ever written a character named it

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Speaker 1: after someone you didn't like then killed them off?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well the time, I don't want that many people

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Speaker 2: I don't like to Yeah, I'm pretty open about people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe the occasional reviewer.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there are a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of You're generous to them, are pretty kind. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: are a generous soul. Those countless grounds and scholarships over

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Speaker 3: the years, to so many institutions. I mean, was it

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Speaker 3: just something that you felt like, when you've got some success,

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Speaker 3: you just wanted to give.

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Speaker 2: Back, you know, I don't take to credit my mom

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Speaker 2: and my grandmother. That was sis their deal to give

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Speaker 2: away stuff. And you know we've given away one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty million dollars, so it's a lot is going

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Speaker 2: to inherit. Nothing but.

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Speaker 1: James, I don't know when you have the time, but

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Speaker 1: can I ask what was the last book you read

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Speaker 1: and loved?

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Speaker 2: I just read a new Michael Connolly that's not out yet.

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Speaker 2: Michael's a friend of my fact, I'm interviewing him Friday.

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Speaker 2: I do a little thing on online interviews. Uh so, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and his new one is he's a he's a terrific

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Speaker 2: mystery writer as well. Yeah. Right, not to compare myself

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Speaker 2: to Michael, but yeah, that was that was the most recent. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think some of his stuff has been made into

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Speaker 1: TV shows, has it or?

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Speaker 2: But enough about him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, enough about it.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, they have, they have, they have. Yeah, we

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Speaker 2: have a well the Alice Crossed stuff that's done well

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Speaker 2: on TV, and we have I don't know if the

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Speaker 2: Idaho murder is a decade over there, that whole those

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Speaker 2: terrible those four young kids in college. I think, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have a documentary coming on you know. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: it's a terrible, terrible crime. I murdered these four college

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Speaker 2: kids in their dormitory. Yeah, and that's going to come

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Speaker 2: on Amazon as well or on you know, Prime video

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Speaker 2: as a documentary.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, madam fascinated about the writing process process. Do

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Speaker 3: you have a favorite room, a favorite desk. Do you

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Speaker 3: work on the laptop or.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. Yeah, I don't work for a living.

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Speaker 2: I play for Yeah, I I I write seven days

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Speaker 2: a week. I'm I'm at one of my desks in

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Speaker 2: my office. I'm I haven't a place on the ocean,

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Speaker 2: so I have to make sure I put the blinds

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Speaker 2: down so I'm not looking at the ocean. But I

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Speaker 2: have a couple of desks in here, and I'll go

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Speaker 2: back and forth between the desks, and you know, so,

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Speaker 2: so if I like right now with the two books

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Speaker 2: with The Woman's Murder Club and the Two Sisters. I

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Speaker 2: might you know, if I'm writing those series, I might

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Speaker 2: write them at different desks, just like that, just trick myself.

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Speaker 3: Right, you know, everything would be a Florida story.

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Speaker 2: I've done a couple of stories in Florida stories as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it came down to visit us here.

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Speaker 3: She loved it.

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Speaker 2: It's not hard to get people here. We just President Clinton.

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Speaker 2: I've written books of President Clinton to visit down here. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: You can just drop.

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Speaker 2: Where I am in Florida. We're one mile from from

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Speaker 2: Mary Lago, which is the President Trump camps out. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're so likable and funny. We want to visit.

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Speaker 2: Come, yes, come on down wet a guest house, right.

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Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish jobs, James. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to read the latest too. And I'm about to have

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Speaker 1: a little holiday, so I will be taking those those

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Speaker 1: with me.

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Speaker 2: Read those books. It's a holiday even if you don't

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Speaker 2: have a holiday, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's lovely to.

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Speaker 3: Chat with you, James.

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Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice.

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Speaker 3: You're playing not working well done.

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Speaker 2: Well, have a nice morning and I'll have a nice night. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You take care okay, this is the light.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, ch