Welcome to day seventeen! All three of these authors are fantastic. Today you’ll find:
To Catch a Bride by Anne Gracie
Witch Fury by Anya Bast
Undercover by Lauren Dane (Federation, Book 1)
Relentless by Lauren Dane (Federation, Book 2)
Also included are other promotional items.
Name an author you like that has dropped off the map. For me, it’s Katherine Sutcliffe. I eventually read that she retired, but she retired before she released a book I read about. Who’s that author for you?
This is a daily giveaway, which means it ends today. The winner will be announced at midnight tonight, PDT. Because we’ll need a little time to pick a winner, the contest will end at 10 p.m. pdt.
Remember, we’ll be giving a Book Bag away every weekday (Monday-Friday) for the rest of the month!
Knock on wood…there are no authors out there that I read that have gone away. Some day I know it will come, and I will be so sad.
And can I just say that this selection might be my very favorite out of all of the bags!! Maybe the lucky fairy will shine on me today 🙂
Thanks so much!
Amy M
Judith McNaught!! I miss her books!
Well, up until a few weeks ago I would have said Laura Kinsale…but the Bitches recently talked about her new book, Lessons in French, coming out soon so…
hmmm…can’t think of anyone else!
As a kid I as heartbroken when Judy Blume stopped writing. It seemed that for every “milestone” in my life there was always a Judy Blume book to help me through!! But after a while I was just left figuring them out on my own!!!
Hi 🙂
Jean Auel ?
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Two writers I miss:
Robert Jordan & David Feintuch.
…All the best,
RKCharron
xoxo
This is in fantasy, but it was Robert Aspirin; right in the middle of 2 series, too. He showed up again a few years ago, but it just wasn’t the same.
I know what happened to a couple other authors that I like (Douglas Adams, for example) but I simply mourn the loss.
I really don’t have any authors that have just gone away. I will say that I have been upset over some others switching genres on me – but never one to have just stopped.
♥Nely
nelaine[dot]sanchez@gmail.com
Judith McNaught, the Historical Writer. I want her back!
jhuneda@yahoo.com
I haven’t had any fav authors go away yet, hopefully that won’t happen anytime soon!
It’s early and I can’t think of any authors that I like who have just stopped.
I can’t think of anyone. It is more I just never paid attention so closely to book releases as I do now. So Like I missed a slew of Amanda Quick books and Jane Feather.
That would have been Diana Gabaldon until this week when she released a new installment on her Outlander Series. I don’t tend to fret over her long lapses between books just because I’ve gotten used to it (not that I like it). I really hope she can wrap up this series smoothly.
I agree with others that Judith McNaught is someone I miss.
I don’t really have any authors that have stopped putting out books either. Some may go a while between books, but they’re still there (thankfully!).
She hasn’t really dropped off the map but I miss the Harry Potter books from J K Rowling. I’ll read anything she writes next! Thanks for your terrific giveaways!!
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I remember an author that I read years ago – Patricia Hagan. Don’t know if she had any others… I think I’ll look her up! thanks!
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There are some authors who take a long time in-between books to write their next one. Some that come to mind are, Gemma Halliday, Jennifer Crusie, Kat Richardson, etc. but I wait patiently for their next book to come out, however tough that might be! I can’t think of any authors that I like that have stopped writing totally for a long period of time.
No one that I know of. Some take a long time between books, but they are still writing so far!
A really interesting question today!! One of my fav authors has almost stopped, but not quite. In the 80’s and 90’s I couldn’t even keep up with this author and now since about 2004 she’s really slowed down. My author is Ruth Ryan Langan.
Diane Setterfield who wrote “Thirteenth Tale” seems to have dropped off the map. Would like to see another book by her.
rlmccormack59 @ gmail dot com
Dallas Schulze – her husband was ill. Don’t know if he is better but I really enjoyed her books.
Helen L.
Rebecca Hagan Lee, I recently fell in love with her works, but she hasn’t done anything recently. Although she did say she was working on something new, but that was well over a year ago with no updates since….
tatt2rane@hotmail.com
I would have to say that the author I miss would be Nora Lofts. I remember reading her novels back in high school. I know there have been some re issues of Concubine and Kings Pleasure but nothing new that I am aware of….
There isn’t anyone that’s dropped off the map for me yet. My problem is waiting the year or longer that some authors take to write another book.
I would have to say Judith McNaught with her fabulous historicals. Also, Jude Deveraux. I want her to start writing historicals again!
So far so good for me… It’s been a while since Jennifer Crusie’s had a release, but they’re still a’comin’ 🙂 And I just started reading Kinsale, so thankfully I’ve got a great backlist to catch up on first 🙂
Well I can’t think of an author that has completely dropped off the map but I have an author that stopped writing from the POV of a character I love and says she will not in the future. Katie MacAlister stopped writing book from Aisling Grey and that is just a shame because Aisling is an awesome & funny character. Then of course there is the whole Anne Rice no longer writing supernatural (Vampires & Witches) does that count?
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I miss a lot of the authors that wrote for the Haunting Hearts line back in the late 90’s. Great romance/ghost stories. (Except for Lynn Kurland, who is still cranking out books thank heaven.)
Thankfully, I can’t really think of an author that just completely stopped releasing books. But there are several authors that I wish would release some more books in a certain genre/series. For example, Julie Garwood and her historicals.
I discovered Octavia Butler about 3 months after she passed away. I’m sorry to be late in discovering her but I’m glad she has left some great books for us to read.
Thanks,
Tracey D
Sandy Blair! A Highlander for Christmas in 2007 was the last Sandy Blair book I had read.
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Lauren Bach – at least I think she retired or she’s not writing under that name anymore at least.
hmmm…I miss Kathleen Woodiwiss 🙁 Her books made me smile and are a good reminder of my past 🙂
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I miss Lacey Dancer, Her books were short but great. You felt let you there and if it was series you could follow biik to book.
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Noone yet thank goodness!! Have only returned to reading assiduously these past four-fve years so I have loads of authors to cathc up with.
I haven’t had any of the authors I read drop off the map. I hope they don’t either.
I miss a number of authors (in several genres) but as they are all dead I must live with it and find a good replacement writer to appease me.
Meanwhile I mourn both the loss of great writers and the bigger loss of stories I wish they had had time to write 🙁
I read a series (4 books), that I absolutely fell in love with. Every year, I re-read it, just because I love it so much. The books are actually YA fiction, but I love it. It’s called “The Fallen” by Thomas Sniegoski. I’m not sure if he’s actually dropped off the map, but I haven’t seen anything by him in years. Which is sad, because “The Fallen” was amazing. I think they actually made a miniseries based off of it.. I watched the first episode of it.. got disheartened, and never watched the rest.
For me its Robin Schone. I know she’s had a recent release, CRY FOR PASSION, but that was already in the pipeline months ahead of her health issues.
I just discovered Dawn Thompsons’s books last year and found that she had passed. She will be missed.
I wanted to second missing Jude Deveraux and the way she USED to write. The mystery stuff she does now just doesn’t do it for me 🙁
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I luckily never had an author vanishing from the surface of writing. I had one disappearing act for three years. A German author called Walter Moers just vanished but he reappeared with a new book so I think this doesn’t really count. But he’s the only one I can think of beside the ones not living anymore.
Thanks for the chance to win these fantastic books.
I really miss Lynda Hilburn’s Kismet Series. I want more, but alas…
Thanks!
Rachel M
Has to be Jean Auel!
Thanks goodness, so far i have had no one drop off my favorites list, i’d be lost if any of them did. They are all healthy and happily producing !!!
Lora Leigh has been vanishing slowly. I miss her books.
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Ireally can’t think of anyone.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
There was a historical romance author who IMHO wrote a great series abound 1066 – Anita Mills. I have tattered paperbacks of Lady of Fire (1987) and Fire and Steel (1988).
I agree with the person who said Judith McNaugh…she is great writer..wish she would come back!
For me that author is Janelle Denison. She only had one release last year, and none this year. I dearly love her contemporary romances, but don’t know what’s going on. She hasn’t updated her website, haven’t found her on a blog to see what, or if she is working on anything new…..Janelle where are you?
As I scanned down to the bottom of the page I noticed two authors I going to name off of the top of my head and they are Judy Blume and Judith McNaught.
Another was Judith Krantz. All great authors I will miss.
Dani
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Hi. I miss Meagan McKinney’s books. I own them all. I mostly miss authors who have left series incomplete. I have my fingers crossed for these two: Brenda Joyce’s Deadly Series and Deborah Smith’s Waterlilies Series. They are as different as can be but I sincerely love both. It seems that they aren’t that popular which I find terribly hard to believe.
I am always interested in new contemporary books. I like contemporary westerns the best.
Wen Spencer has published since 2006 is that considered dropping off the map?
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I miss Julia Ross. I know she was taking some time off, but it’s been several years since she’s had a new release.
I’m surprised Judith Ivory hasn’t been mentioned. No one, not even her agent has been in touch with her in years apparently, very sad. I really miss her style of writing and unusually flawed, redemptive characters.
I have so many favorite authors older and newer ones… that I have a hard time keeping up with what happens to them when I don’t see books from them. Will have to agree with some of the other comments on Judith Ivory and Judith McNaught.. etc
LA banks for me. I read she is working on some new releases, but it has been a while.
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I would have to say Judith McNaught too.