EXCLUSIVE: James Patterson and the late Michael Crichton are teaming on a novel, and now it has a title and pub date.
The duo has combined global sales in excess of 675 million books, so we can expect a monster screen auction to erupt early next year.
Hachette Book Group’s Little, Brown and Company will release Eruption on Monday, June 3, with Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch calling it “one of the most spectacular meetings of minds in literary history.” The novel is based on a partially finished manuscript by Crichton, who died in 2008.
It was given to Patterson by Sherri Crichton, the author’s wife and CEO of CrichtonSun, the publishing/production company of Crichton’s estate.
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