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Robert Barnett & Deneen Howell Represent James Patterson in Book Deal for Novel with MrBeast

May 2025 • less than a minute

Partners Robert Barnett and Deneen Howell represented author James Patterson in negotiations with Jimmy Donaldson, known on social media as MrBeast, for an upcoming high-stakes thriller novel centered around a global competition involving 100 contestants. The currently untitled novel is scheduled to be published by HarperCollins in 2026. This will be Mr. Donaldson’s first collaboration involving a novel.
 
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