Before James Patterson became the Guinness World Record holder as the author with the most No. 1 New York Times best-sellers (114!), he was a struggling writer with a thick folder of rejection letters. Thirty-one publishers passed on his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, before Little, Brown and Company published it in 1976. The thriller,… Before James Patterson became the Guinness World Record holder as the author with the most No. 1 New York Times best-sellers (114!), he was a struggling writer with a thick folder of rejection letters. Thirty-one publishers passed on his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, before Little, Brown and Company published it in 1976. The thriller,…
