TL;DR: talk a bunch of shit about James Patterson, but the dude puts his money where his mouth is.
My partner is a retired bookseller. There’s a lot of history and context over which I’m hand-waving. But Patterson has an annual [thing] wherein he awards a grant to employees of an independent bookstore for that employee’s cause du jour. I forget the numbers, but it’s significant. Like… life-changing quantities of money relative to the bookseller’s position and proposal.
My partner has won the James Patterson annual award for [some things she was getting into before we met] about five (seven?) times. She is assed out and is not responding to my poking her to ask. Patterson has funded things like my partner’s hand-painted/drawn shelf-talkers, even if they weren’t for his books. Patterson funded my partner’s friend’s launch of an independent bookstore.
Hate on Patterson all you want (oh… and I do). But the dude really gives back.
I think I might be one of three people on the internet that doesn’t know a damned thing about Mr Beast. So, I’m guessing this partnership is some really bad thing for some reason?
TL;DR: talk a bunch of shit about James Patterson, but the dude puts his money where his mouth is.
My partner is a retired bookseller. There’s a lot of history and context over which I’m hand-waving. But Patterson has an annual [thing] wherein he awards a grant to employees of an independent bookstore for that employee’s cause du jour. I forget the numbers, but it’s significant. Like… life-changing quantities of money relative to the bookseller’s position and proposal.
My partner has won the James Patterson annual award for [some things she was getting into before we met] about five (seven?) times. She is assed out and is not responding to my poking her to ask. Patterson has funded things like my partner’s hand-painted/drawn shelf-talkers, even if they weren’t for his books. Patterson funded my partner’s friend’s launch of an independent bookstore.
Hate on Patterson all you want (oh… and I do). But the dude really gives back.
That’s nice and all, but then there is the fact that he partnered up with Mr. Beast about a book.
I think I might be one of three people on the internet that doesn’t know a damned thing about Mr Beast. So, I’m guessing this partnership is some really bad thing for some reason?
I thought Patterson, like a lot of fiction genre authors was a pseudonym that’s shared by many different authors.
Not hating on that, I think it makes it cooler but I wonder how they decide what to donate