{"id":17885,"date":"2021-12-06T01:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17885"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:07:13","slug":"prolific-authors-15-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/prolific-authors-15-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors &#8211; 15 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>Way back in December of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/prolific-authors\/\">2011<\/a>\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I&#8217;ve read through August. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 60 books from 54 different authors. There shouldn\u2019t be much movement over the past 2 years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 Today, we have our penultimate entry, with the fake television author I&#8217;ve read 15 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Castle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debuting in 2009, <em>Castle<\/em>\u00a0follows\u00a0the lives of\u00a0Richard Castle, a best-selling novelist, and\u00a0Kate Beckett, a New York homicide detective, as they solve various unusual crimes.\u00a0 As Castle, portrayed by Nathan Fillion, wrote and released Nikki Heat novels on the show, those novels were released in the real world as well, the first of which, <em>Heat Wave<\/em>, was released in 2009.\u00a0 The two most recent efforts, <em>Heat Storm<\/em> and <em>Crasing Heat<\/em>, were released after the cancellation of the show, though it appears unlikely that there will be any future installments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12750\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heatstorm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12750\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12750\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heatstorm-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heatstorm-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heatstorm.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heat Storm &#8211; Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first seven books in the series were eventually revealed to have been ghost-written by Tom Straw.\u00a0 It is unknown if Straw wrote the final entries, though I highly doubt he was responsible for the last one, which even I could tell had a different feel to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[67,8399,7528,774,69,775,9107],"class_list":["post-17885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-castle","tag-crashing-heat","tag-heat-storm","tag-heat-wave","tag-nathan-fillion","tag-richard-castle","tag-tom-straw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18385,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions\/18385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}