Tuesday, October 05, 2010

World's Most Prolific Author

How to Write 85,000 Books: "Philip M. Parker is the world’s fastest book author, and given that he has been at it only for about five years and already has more than 85,000 books to his name, he is likely the most prolific.

Philip M. Parker is also the most wide-ranging of authors. The phrase “shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings” is not the half a percent of it. He has authored some 188 books related to shoes, ten about ships, 219 books about wax, six about sour red cabbage pickles, and six about royal jelly supplements."

4 comments:

Gar Haywood said...

This sounds very much like someone who posts regularly on DorothyL. Seventeen books in his "Hardboiled Hotel Dick" series, 41 in his "Paranormal Pest Control Agent" series, 22 and counting in his "Joe Blade, Black Ops Crossing Guard" series, and so on.

I suspect he's just started and finished the latest book in his "Narcoleptic Ninja" series in the time it's taken me to write this post...

Deb said...

Where is that darn Pulitzer Prize committee when you need them?

Stephen B. said...

Or, for children, a series Perry the Pugilistic Penguin.

85 -- THOUSAND --? Not a typo? I have not read his stuff.

Stephen B. said...

Okay - it's done with a computer, but it's all very weird.