Here is a statement from James Patterson about the collaboration:
"It’s been an honor — and a hell of a lot of fun — to work with the inimitable Dolly Parton, whom I’ve long admired for her music, her storytelling, and her enormous generosity. The mind-blowing thing about this project is that reading the novel is enhanced by listening to the album and vice versa. It’s a really unique experience that I know readers (and listeners) will love."
This isn't Dolly Parton's first collaboration with an author. Her first was with Robert K. Oermann with writing her memoir titled Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. The book goes into her one hundred and seventy-five songs.
Here is a statement from Dolly Parton:
"I cannot be more excited about the release of my very first novel. I hope you enjoy the book and the songs as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it all together!"
Here is the goodreads blurb of Run Rose Run:
From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller — a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
Every song tells a story.
She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.
She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past.
Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her. And destroy her.
Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire — a story that only America’s #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created.
Source material: LATimes.com