{"id":20719,"date":"2023-12-11T03:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:09:54","slug":"prolific-authors-17-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/prolific-authors-17-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 17 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> (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\u2019ve 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\u2019ve read through October. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 118 books, so there could be some movement over the past two years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 We continue things today with the sole author I&#8217;ve read 17 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Holder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My most prolific author first came to my attention in 1998, when I read <em>Halloween Rain<\/em>, her first entry, along with Christopher Golden, in the series of books based on the television show <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>.\u00a0 Twelve of her 17 entries, all of which are tie-ins to either <em>Buffy<\/em> and\/or <em>Angel<\/em>, were read between 1998 and 2002.\u00a0 After a nine-year layoff, she returned to my attention in 2011 with <em>Carnival of Souls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10393\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Heat-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10393\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Heat-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heat &#8211; Nancy Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another five years went by, before she returned again with two books in 2016, one in 2018, and then, finally, one in 2021.\u00a0 Seeing as I have depleted my backlog of <em>Buffy<\/em> novels, she&#8217;s likely to stay put for the foreseeable future, unless someone re-releases these cheaply on the Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011 (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\u2019ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those [&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":[2856,106,914,9763,2889,913],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-angel","tag-buffy","tag-carnival-of-souls","tag-halloween-rain","tag-kindle","tag-nancy-holder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","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=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20727,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions\/20727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}