The author's Substack, 'Hungry Dogs,' will include video interviews with guests like Bill Clinton and Bob Woodward, alongside his takes on 'haters' and Hollywood.
has authored or co-authored hundreds of books over his career, spanning genres, sparking best sellers and creating a slew of TV and film adaptations thanks to franchises like“Like most writers — even in my situation — you’re always at the beck and call of editors,” Patterson tellsin an interview. “With Substack, we’re totally free, we get to do whatever the hell we want to do. So I can write opinion pieces. I can write whatever the hell I want to write, and that’s liberating.
“Sometimes I’ll sit in on Zoom meetings — and they don’t know I’m on the meeting but its about books of mine that are being adapted for TV or film — and I kind of listen to the screenwriters getting these rapid flyer notes from everybody even remotely involved with the project: The studio, the producers, the executive producers, and nobody seems bashful about sharing their opinions,” Patterson says. “And usually after about 10 minutes or so, I have to get off the zoom.
, one of the Alex Cross movies,” Patterson recalls. “Everybody was very nice to me, but I soon found out that the novelist rates somewhere below the caterer, but they know why the caterer is there.” Patterson’s Hungry Dogs joins a growing number of Substacks that expand beyond text to include more video and multimedia content. Earlier this month the CNN commentator Van Jones launched a Substack with a video focus, as the company built on newsletters thinks of ways to reach consumers that get most of their content via podcasts, YouTube or TikTok.
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