https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=klepto+cat+mysteries&sprefix=klepto+cat+m%2Caps%2C284&crid=36F3UIAJG6O5D<\/a> you probably notice that all of the books have garnered huge percentages of 5-star reviews. I thank my readers for taking the time to tell others about Rags and all his human and kitty-cat friends. One comment I got a lot is, \u201cI just wish you\u2019d write faster\u2014bring them out more often.\u201d What author do you know or have you ever known who publishes 6 novels per year? That\u2019s my record so far as a novelists\u20146 per year. Well, I wondered if I\u2019d broken any records, so I decided to do a little research. According to what I found, I\u2019m way behind some of the most prolific authors.<\/p>\nBarbara Cartland may be the most prolific, having produced 722 books and bringing them ![\"bookcovers\"](\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bookcovers-225x300.jpg\")
out every 40 days during her career. She holds the world record and is in the Guinness World Book of Records as having published 23 books in one year.<\/p>\n
Charles Hamilton is estimated to have written 100,000,000 words in his lifetime\u2014the equivalent of 1200 books.<\/p>\n
I found authors who produced 1000, 2000, and even 4000 books in their lifetime, but most of them had a team of writers working with them\u2014ghostwriters, such as Edward Stratemeyer, the head of the syndicate that produced the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series.<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to wind up in the Guinness World Book of Records, nor will I break any records with my prolificacy. I think it\u2019s important to have a life aside from your writing life. Besides, if you hole-up in your writing room all the time where will the inspiration for the storylines come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re on Christmas countdown. Are you ready? Do you at least have a valid list and a plan? If part of your plan is to find smidges and smidgens of time in which to chill, relax, crash, unwind, rest, I\u2019d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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We\u2019re on Christmas countdown. Are you ready? Do you at least have a valid list and a plan? If part of your plan is to find smidges and smidgens of time in which to chill, relax, crash, unwind, rest, I\u2019d like to recommend a beautiful (and a little bit harrowing) holiday story to read. If you haven\u2019t ready \u201cA Picture-Purrfect Christmas\u201d (number 13 in the Klepto Cat Mystery series), you have missed a good opportunity to try out the new Puffs Lotion Tissues. Yeah, most readers say they actually weep with feel-good emotion when reading this story.<\/p>\n