The hook sounds dull. I think I'd prefer a short story about James Patterson communing with a LLM trained on Crichton novels to create something new.
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. The subject: A once-in-a-century volcano eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano threatens a secret cache of chemical weapons that can destroy not only the island but the world.
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The Crichton/Patterson deal was the first deal signed after CrichtonSun signed with Shane Salerno and The Story Factory.
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“It’s the publishing world’s version of when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg came together to create Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Salerno said of the Crichton and Patterson tandem.
*Previously: "James Patterson mostly doesn’t write his books. And his new readers mostly don’t read — yet"