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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Robin Cook died in 2005. So how is a book written by a dead author being published in 2017?
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1- It could be an unpublished manuscript.
2- It could be an unfinished manuscript.
3- It could be ghost-written from notes and outlines left behind.
4- The publisher bought/licensed the name. Less likely, but Tom Clancy was alive when he sold his name and trademarks so it is possible.
Posthumous publishing is not only not rare, it is increasingly common.
The big publishers prefer proven authors and the dead are known quantities with established fan bases.