Stephen King: Nora Roberts

Suzanne Collins Dept: Patterson, who released 14 titles in the year from May 2011 to May 2012, has a bevy of writers researching and penning novels for him. He earned $94 million US from adult thrillers and fantasy/sci-fi novels and movie rights, according to CBC. But the up-and-comers on the list are Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games series and J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author turned adult writer and james Patterson and Stephen King still top Forbes annual list of the world s richest authors, but the magazine has its eye on three women writers who stand to move up the list next year. King had a blockbuster hit with his time-travel novel about the assassination of JFK, 11/22/63, as well TV rights to other books. 15 top-earning authors James Patterson: $94 million. Stephen King: $39 million. Janet Evanovich: $33 million. John Grisham: $26 million. Jeff Kinney, $25 million. Bill O'Reilly: $24 million. Nora Roberts: $23 million. Danielle Steel: $23 million. Suzanne Collins: $20 million. Dean Koontz: $19 million. JK Rowling: $17 million. George R.R. Martin: $15 million. Stephenie Meyer: $14 million. Ken Follett: $14 million. Rick Riordan: $13 million. Source: Forbes (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.