Event Description

James Patterson is represented as having made minimal consulting contribution to a forthcoming book nominally attributed to him, with the actual research and writing performed by John Connolly. The book is framed as exploiting the Patterson franchise model where other authors write under the Patterson name.

Quoted Evidence

“Patterson has had little more than a minimal consulting role in the book, and that Connolly has functioned in every material way as the book's researcher and writer...the entire notion of an extension of the Patterson franchise into nonfiction, as it has been used in fiction and children's book--effectively other authors writing under the Patterson name”

Trafficking Assessment