Author james patterson, think i read somewhere or told by someone who knows this that one in 36 books in the us has your name on it. Sacredness. I dont pay any attention. There are a lot of people who like my book, which is terrific for me and also for people going into bookstores and libraries. Host how many books are you working on right now . Guest usually a dozen or so book that im doing a one time. Last year i wrote two books about myself and this is a weird one, if you think this through i approached 2500 pages of outlines last year and dolomite outlines our drafts, so three or four drops of a 2500 page whatever, which is all imagination and making up stories. Heres a story and heres how i see this going. We have a book im doing with president bill clinton and started with an outline. Host you have done that outline . Guest yeah, we are halfway through. We meet frequently and talk on the phone a lot and its great because hes a good storyteller, also. He has information about the presidency and governments that other people dont have, so its going to be a really its called the president is missing. Im so proud to be working with him. Host whos the first drafter you are him . Guest i dont know how it works, but thats not how works. Host win is that due . Guest next summer. Host where did alex cross come from . Guest its a long time ago, but a piece of it was when i was growing up my grandparents had a small restaurant in upstate new york, and the cook was a black woman named laura and she was having problems with her husband and our family said move in with us and she moved in with us for about three years and during that time i spent a lot of time with her family and they were smart and funny and interesting and their food was wonderful there and i actually preferred being with her family than my own. That always stuck with me in terms of just the workings of her family in particular and families i met during that time. Especially wearing man up mama came from. I guess that would be a combination of this woman and probably my grandmother who was one of these people that she would go up and fix her own Television Antenna when she was like 80 years old and be upon one of these rickety literally of three stories and youre like my gosh, shes going to fall. Thats not how she died. Host wended childrens books become a part of your guest we have a son jack thats 19 now and when he was little hes a bright kid. He wasnt a big reader and when he was eight i had been stimulated to write books for kids because people turn the pages and thats useful for kids to get them involved, but when jack he wasnt a big reader in that summer and i wish more people would do this we said you will read every day and he said do i have to reset unless you want to live in the garage so we went out and got him a dozen books, some of the library and some in book stores and by the end of the summer he had read all 12 in his reading skills went crazy and when jack took his sats he got an 800 perfect score in reading and thats what can happen, but it wont necessarily wind up with an 800 test, but they will become good readers if they read enough, most kids. Parents need to take responsibility for that and to understand that its their job. In the same way that you teach your boy may be how to throw a baseball or teacher girl how to write a book and those are good things to do, but getting them reading is even more important. Host prior to becoming an author you had a life, you have not been an author before. Guest i was in advertising for several years, but i have been clean for over 20 years now, so i dont know why you brought that up. It got me to understand communication better. It got me to understand theres an audience, that you will talk to people and, you know, you have to hold of their attention. They are not necessarily interested in what you have to say. I think that is particularly important with childrens books. Host the first manuscript you wrote, what was it . Wasnt easy to sell . Guest the first book i wrote, i was 25. I went to graduate school and i wrote it a detective novel that was turned down by 31 publishers. It then was bought by little brown and it won and edgar as first mystery. Heres a book turned down by 31 publishers and that one and edgar award, so for anyone who is writing you can get turned down and sometimes they just arent paying enough attention or they are just not that smart, i dont know. [inaudible] guest i left for a while and then came back. Ive been with them in total over 25 years. Host you have another Nonfiction Book you are working on. Where did this come from. Guest i have written a couple, i wrote filthy rich about a guy who i ran into a few times in palm beach, a billionaire whos accused of having relationships with several underage girls that he would bring into his house and im doing one right now on aaron hernandes. Host why erin hernandes . Guest we have a lot of Insider Information in terms of what went on at the university of florida, things about his family , various things about the patriots, and i dont want to hurt anyone, but its a fascinating story when you get someone who had not just a physical gifts, but he was a bright guy. You have a gift and he obviously was making it in a big weight and had just signed a 40 milliondollar contract and yet something was wrong about this guy and some of it goes back to his father died very unexpectedly when aaron was 16 and something happened to their. Something went terribly wrong and i just its a story that i could knock it out of my head and i think its going to be a terrific books. Host james patterson, we were also identifying you as a literacy advocate. What are you working on . Guest well, we just do an awful lot, my wife and i. We have scholarships for teachers or people studying to be teachers at i think 30 universities now with over 450 scholarships for teachers. I will do graduation speeches. I did at some of the schools. I done them at manhattan college, mississippi state, arkansas. We have programs for scholastic. We gave away almost 2 million to School Library during this year we will do classroom libraries, which is i think even cooler because a lot of times these teachers are putting up their own money to buy books for their classes, so thats and so climbing in like 10 days we got like 20000 teachers saying please help her classroom. We do a thing in the holidays where we give out just bonuses to people that work in bookstores around the country and in a lot of ways thats the most gratifying because they always write letters. The letters are always articulate and emotional and you got to understand with a lot of these people they dont have much money, so all of a sudden 5000 or thousand dollars that comes out of the sky and i remember one woman wrote back and said i can go to the dentist this year, i mean, thats the reality. A lot of people work at bookstores, theres just no money there, so thats a Rewarding Program and there are other things we do. Host how anonymous kenny be these days walking on the street . Guest its not bad. Its not like you are tom hanks or tom cruise or you know, nicole kidman. People notice and might smile. Mostly people give you space. Hearing little more because its full up. A lot of them will come up and go im such an such from this place and you gave us a grant, which is very emotional and they want to meet sue and i, which is gratifying and fun. Host james patterson, author and literary advocate, author of over 150 books, thrillers, romances, childrens books, young adults, 350 million books as a january 16. Guest that kind of crazy. I dont think about that, honestly, but its nice to be able to do someone said you are lucky. Find something you like to do it its a miracle to have someone pay you to do that and thats my situation, obviously. Especially, i have my own childrens imprint that little brown and we do my books and other authors as well and the omission of jimmy is when a kid finish is a jimmy book that they say please give me another book as opposed to i dont like to read, so i think thats a smart way to go and thats what we try to do and if we can do it with kids and get books in their hands where they go give me another book, we will go a long way in this country in terms of making this country more compassionate, more thoughtful, a little less of a a little better judgment when we are dealing with the political process etc. Host thank you for being on the tv. Guest yeah, great. Sunday night on afterwards. Someone like steve jobs can sell this product and forever be associated with it when its just a shade of the story, i mean, he was handson had a lot to do with it, but the truth is like even the iphone as so far was developed at apple it never wouldve happened without scores of people worked aroundtheclock. Motherboard magazine Senior Editor on the creation and development of the iphone in his book the one device. Interviewed by steve lohr. Part of the story is that the iphone was born as this software interaction paradigm was born behind the steve jobs back, this crew of job guys that i document in the book started basically experimenting with this freewheeling research that was fun and wild kind of stuff. They had this crazy projector read they were using to hack products together and create what would become the iphone. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on tpain on cspan2 book tv. And now book tvs monthly indepth program with author, journalist and history professor herb boyd. Professor boyd teaches at the city college of new york and writes a call oil column is the author or editor of many books including autobiography of a people, the harlem reader and his latest