Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ?

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47. A novel idea

If I were writing a novel, I imagine a plot might be this:

A failed ad agency writer named Tim Chatterson conceals the embezzling of millions in ad agency stockholder profits by a corrupt Republican elected official / client, in exchange for this corrupt GOP official getting Chatterson on the NYT best seller list as a novelist for the first time in Chatterson's life.

Together, this criminal conspiracy dupes the media and the public for almost a decade with a bait and switch/ fake ad to create false positive media for both corrupt politician/embezzler and corrupt / failed ad agency writer Chatterson.

Because the military later buys millions of copies of Chatterson's novel after Chatterson has promoted the fake ad for years to benefit the corrupt politician who is now president, Chatterson finally gets on the best selling list and becomes the greatest selling novelist in the universe -- but he knows others know he is still a crappy writer. (His books were allegedly donated to the military, and he credits a sudden surge in book sales to his cheap, crappy tv commercials for his novels.)

School librarians begin getting rid of his books when they learn he deceived consumers with the fake ad, and told consumers they couldn't write, after having never given anyone a chance.

Those who covered up his fraud by pretending the fake ad was true finally come clean.

Chatterson loses his fortune because he is forced to submit to a remedy in equity by the courts -- and he becomes a pauper, while poor people scammed by his fake ad become rich.

A happy ending!