DID JAMES PATTERSON STEAL MY IDEA?

You decide.

I published my first "shirt pocket book" over 2 years ago. And as far as I know, it was not just my first shirt pocket book. It was the world's first for the mass market.

So I was a little shocked when I heard that fellow adman James Patterson is planning on a "new" publishing format very similar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/business/media/james-patterson-has-a-big-plan-for-small-books.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

Patterson actually worked for the same ad agency I did, J. Walteer Thompson, albeit in a somewhat more exalted capacity (after all,. he is of the...er...uh..."Caucasian persuasion".)

Anyway, thanks for checking out my blog. 

Lowell