The brothers will work on the next few books together, says Child, and then Grant will strike out on his own. (Whether sitting on the Booker prize jury, to which Child was appointed earlier this month, will prove a less exhausting way to spend his time remains to be seen.)
He would love to write the books himself, he says, but admits that “realistically I’m ageing out of being able” to do it. He would have been furious.”īy publicly making clear his plans for Reacher, Child hopes to keep his legions of fans happy with “many, many more Reacher stories”, written by a man he describes as “me, 15 years ago, full of energy and ideas”. He never let anyone work on his literary texts. “The worst thing is how saddened Stieg would have been. David Lagercrantz’s thrillers might be classy enough – but Larsson’s partner Eva Gabrielsson has been stingingly critical of the continuation. There has been a long-running legal wrangle over who owns rights to the late Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan creation, while the posthumous success of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books has led to a series of ghostwritten follow-ups. Some writers, however, don’t have much of a choice. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently”.
Wilbur Smith has also gladly collaborated with co-authors in recent years, saying that “my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. He’ll write a 50-page outline for his team, who will draft chapters that Patterson will read, revise, and rewrite where he needs to, paying them out of his own pocket. In taking on a co-author role with his brother, Child follows in the large footsteps of writers such as James Patterson, who works with a handful of co-authors on bestselling lines including the Alex Cross books and Women’s Murder Club series.
Others, though, have been more than happy to pass on the baton. In that last book, he’s really finished,” he said in 2012. Sherlock Holmes was recovered … but it will not be possible to recover Montalbano.
“When I get fed up with him or am not able to write any more, I’ll tell the publisher: publish that book. The late Italian detective novelist Andrea Camilleri always had an end in sight for Inspector Montalbano, writing the final novel in the series 14 years ago, and keeping it in his publisher’s offices in Palermo.
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