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Re:Kim Jung Gi has died by spookybones on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:04AM (#33108283)
Some writers work this way, mostly famously George Simenon, who was possibly the most prolific writer ever.
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Re:Kim Jung Gi has died by zimpenfish on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:21AM (#33108514)
Corin 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/

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Re:Kim Jung Gi has died by dzamo_norton on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:50PM (#33126104)
It's hard not to think that's a team writing secretly under an individual name.
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Re:Kim Jung Gi has died by zimpenfish on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:01PM (#33126799)
Going 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... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor%C3%ADn_Tellado

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