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Originally Posted by Katsunami
How can you reread Mercedes Lackey every year?
I've had the chance to get some of her books cheaply a few years ago, but looking through her bibliography, she seems to write a book every other month, so I declined to get them.
Look at this
A huge number of books have a "with <writer name>" prefix. I wouldn't be surprised if these people are doing most of the writing.
Another writer I've seen who does this is James Patterson, and I won't be surprised if writers such as Daniëlle Steel do the same. Daniëlle Steel "writes" 4 books a year, and has 6 to be written and published in 2016. That's impossible. Nobody can write that much and that fast.
It could even be possible that there are a number of people writing, all under the same name, with the original author just as some sort of supervisor. |
I had a whole long rant in response to this but instead I'm just going to lay out some facts as to how
wrong wrong wrong you are about how "impossible" it is for an author to be so prolific without lying about it.
Isaac Asimov - 506 published works
Dame Barbara Cartland -
722 published novels - current Guiness World Record holder
Alexandre Dumas - 277 published works
Nora Roberts aka JD Robb - 200+ published novels
RL Stine - 300+ published novels
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As to Mercedes Lackey - 64 of the 119 novels listed on that page were written solely by her. The entire Valdemar series with the exception of the Mage Wars trilogy was written solely by her. The Mage War trilogy was co-written with her husband.