JAMES PATTERSON has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson’s books have sold more than 280 million copies.

OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop.

JAMES PATTERSON has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson's books have sold more than 280 million copies.

OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop.

JAMES PATTERSON is the world’s best-selling author, best known for his many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, I Funny, and Jacky Ha-Ha. Patterson’s writing career is characterized by a single mission: to prove to everyone, from children to adults, that there is no such thing as a person who “doesn’t like to read,” only people who haven’t found the right book. He’s given over a million books to school-kids and over forty million dollars to support education and endowed over five thousand college scholarships for teachers. He writes full time and lives in Florida with his family. Learn more at jamespatterson.com.OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.