Anonymous wrote:Anthony Trollope wrote something like 47 novels and MANY of them are over 500 pages. I've read about 25 of them and love his writing so much.

Can you elaborate on what you love about his writing? I only ask because a bunch of my favorite contemporary writers have died over the past 5 yrs or so and I need new material.

Anonymous wrote:Anthony Trollope wrote something like 47 novels and MANY of them are over 500 pages. I've read about 25 of them and love his writing so much.

But did he keep his Lore straight? I mean he kept it Victorian and not Victorian Steam Punk

Anthony Trollope wrote something like 47 novels and MANY of them are over 500 pages. I've read about 25 of them and love his writing so much.

Anonymous wrote:2 authors I have enjoyed, not the same genre you brought up, but have a lot of books:

Bryce Courtenay

Abraham Verghese

Verghese is great but does not have a lot of books. He has 4 total and sometimes goes years between publishing.

Agatha Christie

Anonymous wrote:Maybe not if your tastes lean towards literary fiction, but some of these prolific authors are good.

John Sandford has said that he works with other authors on his books because he had achieved a level of success and visibility and working with him would help those authors grow in their career as writers, which is admirable.

I think Brandon Sanderson helps finish up other series. Someone mentioned him above.
That's a good talent to have.

Though I suppose AI and ghost writers are fine nowadays as long as you keep the "lore" straight, and the worldbuilding, etc. Maybe that's what OP implies.

Maybe not if your tastes lean towards literary fiction, but some of these prolific authors are good.

John Sandford has said that he works with other authors on his books because he had achieved a level of success and visibility and working with him would help those authors grow in their career as writers, which is admirable.

2 authors I have enjoyed, not the same genre you brought up, but have a lot of books:

Bryce Courtenay

Abraham Verghese

John Sandford and his "Prey" series.

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’ll bite - Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Elin Hildebrand

huge numbers of books, but not "lengthy series" I don't think any of those authors have series do they?

Marian Keyes. Tons and tons of books by her out in the universe

Ok, I’ll bite - Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Elin Hildebrand

Anonymous wrote:Are they really all that lore?

Think of James Patterson
David baldacci

And all the kind of horror crime murder suspense type folks

Balzac?
Dickens?
Thackeray?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of them were written by assistants.

Soon they will be written by AI.

James Patterson gives interviews about his process and yes, he has a team of ghost writers.

Be careful about throwing that assumption around. There are lots of lawyers and academics who become authors and they are extremely disciplined and productive. Baldacci and Grisham write their own books.

I enjoy several authors who put out 2 short books a year. It's possible they use a ghostwriter, but the books are inexpensive (like $5 to $8 for an ebook) so it's hard to see the profit model where you could pay multiple people. I think they're just very disciplined and treat writing like a job - not just the full time hours but the planning and project management aspects.

Doorstops like Wheel of Time took years between installments. The author had an assistant keeping track of the details and his wife's editing was a huge factor in his success, but they weren't ghostwriten.

Ali Hazelwood is another example of this. She's on sabbatical from a job as a college professor and writes all day, every day.

John Connolly's detective book series runs to something like 20 books

Anthony Horowitz has several series of books, Alex Rider, The Hawthorne Mysteries, etc etc etc

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of them were written by assistants.

Soon they will be written by AI.

James Patterson gives interviews about his process and yes, he has a team of ghost writers.

Be careful about throwing that assumption around. There are lots of lawyers and academics who become authors and they are extremely disciplined and productive. Baldacci and Grisham write their own books.

I enjoy several authors who put out 2 short books a year. It's possible they use a ghostwriter, but the books are inexpensive (like $5 to $8 for an ebook) so it's hard to see the profit model where you could pay multiple people. I think they're just very disciplined and treat writing like a job - not just the full time hours but the planning and project management aspects.

Doorstops like Wheel of Time took years between installments. The author had an assistant keeping track of the details and his wife's editing was a huge factor in his success, but they weren't ghostwriten.