A lot of movies, it’s collaboration – more than one person working together. “The funny thing is, most television is collaboration – certainly in the United States. Patterson pictured with Bill Clinton in 2018, with whom who he co-wrote two novels (Alamy/PA) Writing is largely seen as a solitary endeavour, but Patterson enjoys collaborating – and suggested it’s more common than you might think.
But if you have the president there and you’re writing about a president, that’s wonderful because he’ll tell you, ‘This is what the Secret Service would do, here’s what they wouldn’t do, here’s what might happen at the White House, here’s how it wouldn’t happen’ – so that’s fun.” “Fiction writers, we tend to make things up. He’s written two novels with Bill Clinton (The President Is Missing and The President’s Daughter), and there are plenty of benefits to working with a former president. Patterson, 76, has sold more than 300 million copies of his own novels – including the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett and Women’s Murder Club series – and Parton isn’t his first high-profile collaboration.
