James Patterson pours them out, piles them high and pulls in the moolah

A fascinating article about writing today in a peculiarly commercialised form - from a magazine which almost always produces a high standard of literary style itself: Vanity Fair.

If James Patterson interests you as a text generator (hard to imagine as an actual, well, "writer"!), then I highly recommend this article from the current issue of the magazine:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/01/james-patterson-best-selling-author