On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> Aishwarya Subramanian [16/06/10 22:05 +0530]: > > I recently read my first Amanda Quick book and thought it was hugely >> enjoyable. I only ever seem to read Regency romances (the influence of >> Heyer, I suspect) but favourite authors are Loretta Chase (hilarious and >> vastly underrated) and Julia Quinn (who fluctuates between 'quite good' >> and >> 'wonderful'). >> > > Chances are - some of those names are going to be syndicated 'house brands' > with a number of authors, a few of them famous in their own right. > > That's a long and time honored tradition with pulp fiction of any sort. > I'm aware that this happens a lot in pulp fiction. However the sorts of romances I'm referring to aren't actually pulp (though I will frequently consume that as well) and are definitely individual people. In romance, as far as I can tell, it's more common for one author to write under several different names (for different subgenres) than for many authors to write under one name. By 2020 every big name in the romance market will secretly be Nora Roberts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Roberts_bibliography
