[Tarana]

I know of several orphaned author's works. One was orphaned because the company went belly up, a publisher bought a few of the works and abandoned this deceased author's. Author had no heirs. Since then the company owner died with no heirs. Two other authors died with heirs who subsequently died without heirs. This is going to happen more and more as there are a lot of authors who have neither children nor siblings. In most cases, states can take any remaining assets except for copyrights.

At least one enterprising person took my conversions of an author's works that were orphaned (see first instance above) and issued them on Amazon. Has the same mistakes in my original. In some ways, I'm miffed, but on the other hand, a new generation will be able to read these as regency romance is still popular.