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Old 05-29-2014, 11:57 PM   #16
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Old 05-30-2014, 04:24 AM   #17
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer.

I really enjoyed this novel set in Guernsey during WWII.

It was published posthumously after parts of the book were completed by one of Shaffer's relatives.
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Old 05-30-2014, 07:28 PM   #18
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Old 05-30-2014, 08:09 PM   #19
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer.

I really enjoyed this novel set in Guernsey during WWII.

It was published posthumously after parts of the book were completed by one of Shaffer's relatives.
Didn't realize this. A good read though.
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Old 05-31-2014, 03:29 AM   #20
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I think there must have been quite a few single-book authors who were famous for other things and decided to give novel writing a try, only to find out they didn't sell. The problem is that nobody remembers their novels.
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Eve Forward. She wrote Villains By Necessity and nothing else AFAIK. It's a pretty good book.
She actually wrote another book "Animist" published in 2000. I've got them both in hardback. Villains By Necessity was a great book, one that is in my watch list for ebooks. I wasn't quite as enamored with the Animist.
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Old 05-31-2014, 12:30 PM   #22
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I think there must have been quite a few single-book authors who were famous for other things and decided to give novel writing a try, only to find out they didn't sell. The problem is that nobody remembers their novels.
I'm sure there are a ton of one-novel authors out there. The problem is that the vast majority of the one novels never really did well, so we don't know of them.
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Old 06-01-2014, 08:49 AM   #23
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I'm sure there are a ton of one-novel authors out there. The problem is that the vast majority of the one novels never really did well, so we don't know of them.
I agree. But the original question was "what are the best one-novel authors?" (my emphasis).

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True, but the post that I was replying to was talking about one novel authors who were famous for something else but whose one novel didn't do well. I was simply agreeing with him and pointing out this was the norm, famous or not.
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Old 06-01-2014, 10:56 AM   #25
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I agree. But the original question was "what are the best one-novel authors?" (my emphasis).

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"Best" being a purely subjective term in this instance, since it apparently is being used as "most well-known".

For me, a best one-novel author is Sandra Brewer who wrote "Murder for Beltene: A Beltene Family Mystery (...Dressed Like a Mystery, with Fantasy Lingerie...)".
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I agree. But the original question was "what are the best one-novel authors?" (my emphasis).

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Sorry, I just went by the name of the thread when I wrote my comment, and didn't read the first post closely enough. You're right that my comment doesn't really apply here.
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