Word-of-mouth sensation has made the novelist $10m in the last year, outselling George RR Martin, but still earning a fraction of James Patterson’s $95m
Former financial journalist Paula Hawkins has become one of the world’s highest-paid authors, leap-frogging Game of Thrones bestseller George RR Martin to claim a spot in Forbes’s yearly ranking of the richest writers in the world.
Forbes’s list, compiled using official book sales figures and analysis from experts, is topped for the third year running by James Patterson, who earned $95m (£71m) over the last 12 months. The amount puts the thriller author comfortably at the top of the magazine’s chart: second-placed Jeff Kinney, author of the Wimpy Kid children’s books, earned a paltry-in-comparison $19.5m, with Harry Potter author JK Rowling in third place for estimated earnings of $19m.
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