[lbo-talk] Do you understand pattersonization?

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Jul 6 04:41:49 PDT 2011


I find the capitalization INTERESTING. I wonder WHY they are DOING it and what it MEANS?

At 07:33 AM 7/6/2011, SA wrote:
>http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wri/2443980311.html
>
>Can You Pattersonize? (Midtown)
>Date: 2011-06-16, 11:53AM EDT
>Reply to: job-w8mxm-2443980311 at craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
>Do you understand pattersonization?
>
>James Patterson has sold over 200 million novels--more than Stephen King,
>John Grisham and Dan Brown combined--largely because his brief, open,
>explicit style mimics popular TV.
>
>It's so easy on the reader.
>
>Help us pattersonize our novels--editing, punching up the prose--cutting
>to the core of the emotion.
>
>$5 to $10 per page, quality--revisions required--dependent.
>More than 2000 pages existing work to be edited at present.
>
>All responses MUST include:
>
>(1) In 10 POINTS or less, a BULLETED description OF PATTERSON'S WRITING /
>PUBLISHING STYLE, as you understand it.
>
>(2) A SHORT EXAMPLE CHAPTER of YOUR OWN work OR a CHAPTER copied from a
>PUBLISHED author's work before-AND-after pattersonization.
>
>(3) A NUMBERED LIST of recently read Patterson books--with a BRIEF reason
>for liking or disliking each one.
>
>(4) Your PHONE number.
>
>Please, DO NOT INCLUDE your resume, list of credits or other personal
>items in your response.
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