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Some writers work this way, mostly famously George Simenon, who was possibly the most prolific writer ever.
by spookybones 4y ago
Some writers work this way, mostly famously George Simenon, who was possibly the most prolific writer ever.
- zimpenfish 4y agoCorin Tellado's 4000 romance novels[1] would like a word. For reference, Simenon would be between Asimov and Stine on this list, I think. [1] https://thebookslist.com/most-prolific-authors/ https://thebookslist.com/most-prolific-authors/
- dzamo_norton 4y agoIt's hard not to think that's a team writing secretly under an individual name.
- zimpenfish 4y agoGoing off [1] and [2], it seems like she was definitely a lone writer but it also sounds like a lot of them were 75-100 pages - "[in 1962, Bruguera] offered her a contract to deliver a 76-page novel every week. This she did until Bruguera's collapse in 1985" which makes 23 years of 52 novels or about 1200. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/04/obituary-corin-tellado https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/04/obituary-corin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor%C3%ADn_Tellado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor%C3%ADn_Tellado