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Originally Posted by leebase
Yeah...not talking about the collaboration that most any book represents.
I like James Patterson...and --so far-- have liked any book with his name on it. That's what I expect from "Author as Contractor". I'm not really stuck on "did James write it" but "will this be the kind of writing quality that I expect from this author".
I've continued reading the Tom Clancy books long after his death. He's not writing them, nor obviously editing them. But he did a good job of picking his successor (IMHO).
Same with Eric Van Lustbader carrying on the Jason Bourne books.
I even like the Dune books written by his son and Brian Anderson.
It's just that Lovelock failed so hard in being the "soul joining" experience I normally feel when reading an OSC book. The type of story, the arc of the story...yep...typical OSC. But the TELLING of the story? Not so much.
Maybe it was the audible actor as I listened to each book. Stephan Rudnicki is one of my favorite audible readers and he's done many of the OSC books including the one I'm reading now and liking so much.
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I know what you mean. Monster Hunter Guardian was a similar experience for me. Larry Corriea has a fairly distinctive writing style and it was fairly obvious that Corriea had little to do with that book. There is a side series of Monster Hunter books written by John Ringo that has Corriea name on it, but in the forward Corriea said that Ringo had asked to play in the MHI universe and Corriea just provided some continuity editing. Guardian had no such disclaimer, though it did list the other writer as the co-writer. My guess is that Corriea hadn't really planned the book, but Baen was looking to give one of their mid tier authors a boost. I was frankly disappointed by the book and felt a bit cheated.
My guess is that you see it mostly with older writers (Card is 68) who are slowing down a lot and whose name still has a lot of pull in the market.