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Originally Posted by abookreader
does he beat Jean Auel?
Plains of Passage - 1990
Shelters of Stone - 2002
Painted Caves - 2011
and now she's hinting that she might have "more to say." Good Grief. And the Cubs might win the World Series too but I won't be holding my breath in hope, bless her heart.
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Auel is no kid. She really needs to wrap it up before she ups and dies as others have done.
What really bites my ample asset (besides tall dogs) are authors who promise a sequel, then die before delivering, especially if they milk the time between books. At least Michael Jordon's Wheel of Time series is being finished by a ghost writer (although he and Jordon's widow are still milking the cash cow). Louis L'Amour promised a sequel, and hinted at a third book, to follow The Walking Drum, wrote several other books after that, then up and died before delivering on his promise. J. R. R. Tolkien barely scratched the surface of his Middle Earth stories before he died (granted, it was a rather massive undertaking). At least his son, Christopher, has done a surprisingly good job of editing the unfinished books and fleshing out others based on his father's outlines and notes.