When the prolific author Michael Crichton died, he left behind a novel about his favorite place in the world. His wife worked for years to get it finished.
hen Michael Crichton and his wife Sherri first started dating, all they did was hike. Every weekend there they were, taking in the scenery from the coasts of California to the. The island of Kauai was their favorite place, its rivers carving through volcanic rock and steep, jagged cliffs cutting the sky. The couple would wake before dawn to be first ones out on the trails, and together they’d take in the sunrise.
Those miles were sacred—and one of the few times that Sherri could get a window into Michael’s writing process. It was the early 2000s, and Michael was already a literary phenomenon and bona fide screenwriting machine with novels and movie adaptations that made millions and spun franchises that continue today. Chief among them:
At any given moment, he could be in the throes of research on multiple projects. But on those hikes with Sherri, he kept circling in on just one. “It was early in our relationship, when he said he had this book that was set in Hawaii and based on a volcano,” she remembers. “He would scratch his head—he was constantly working on it in his mind.”, and a government secret with potentially fatal implications.
For 11 years, she held the book close to her chest. She says she wanted to preserve his legacy—and protect his enormous footprint on pop culture, which just kept growing, even after his death. More than 15 years later, his work lives on. In July,“All of his ideas are like his children,” Sherri says. “He took care of them, he was very specific about how he would nurture them, going back to edit, re-edit, reorganize, and fill in new, updated research.
The result is a fast-paced and deeply considered story—one that Patterson and Sherri believe is so seamless that readers won’t be able to tell where Crichton ends and Patterson begins. They hope to reach a wide audience, which shouldn’t be hard to do given the power of their fan bases combined, not to mention a hot Hollywood bidding war over the movie rights.that it is being set up as a new franchise and A-list actors have reached out about the project.
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