1 Angelique Armae = M.A. duBarry Edgar Rice Burroughs = Norman Bean = John Tyler McCullough C.J. Cherryh Victoria Holt = Philippa Carr = Jean Plaidy = Kathleen Kellow = Eleanor Burford = Ellalice Tate Jim Lavene = ½Elyssa Henry = ½Joye Ames Shiree McCarver Timothy Zahn 2 Vicki Andrews Allen Drury James A. Janke 3 Yvonne Collins Paula Gill Jeraldine Saunders Cherry Wilder 4 Joan Aiken Betsy Burke Cyril Hare Mary Renault Flora Speer Danette Thompson = ½Nicole Foster 5 Cleve F. Adams = Franklin Charles = John Spain Mary Williams = ½Bronwyn Williams 6 Groff Conklin Marian L. Franz = ½Joanne Bremer = ½Joellyn Carroll = ½Marisa Carroll Susan Hubbard China Miéville Sandy Rideout 7 Michael Bracken Taylor Caldwell Marilyn Granbeck 8 Lynn Abbey Ann Beattie Martha Albrand 9 Dixie Browning = ½Bronwyn Williams Alice Thomas Ellis Karen Fenech Merline Lovelace Bill Myers Phyllis A. Whitney 10 Marian Keyes Melissa Lea Leedom J.C. (Janet) Privett Victoria Strauss 11 Renee Halverson D.H. Lawrence John Lutz 12 Bonnie Drury Charles L. Grant Stanislaw Lem Joanne Pence Jewel Stone = Dominique Sinclair Molly Swanton = ½Lynn Erickson 13 Roald Dahl Tom Holt Warren Murphy 14 Martin Caidin Larry Collins KVS Rama Rao Judith Stanton Donna Valentino Elizabeth Winthrop 15 Agatha Christie = Mary Westmacott James Fenimore Cooper Tomie dePaola Jennifer Echols Andreas Eschbach Loren D. Estleman Suzanne Forster Kathleen Harrington Robert McCloskey Betty Neels Lass Small = Cally Hughes Norman Spinrad Howard Waldrop Chelsea Quinn Yarbro = ½Quinn Fawcett 16 Karen Anderson A.C. Baantjer Gwen Bristow Nick Sagan Maura Seger = Josie Litton = Jenny Bates = Maeve Fitzgerald = Laura Hastings = Sara Jennings = Anne MacNeill = Laura Michaels = Laurel Winslow 17 John Creasey = Gordon Ashe = Norman Deane = Elise Fecamps = Patrick Gill = Michael Halliday = Charles Hogarth = Brian Hope = Colin Hughes = Kyle Hunt = Abel Mann = Peter Manton = J.J. Marric = James Marsden = Richard Martin = Rodney Mattheson = Anthony Morton = Ken Ranger = William K. Reilly = Tex Riley = Henry St. John = Jimmy Wilde = Jeremy York Jennifer Crusie Elizabeth Delisi Ken Kesey Gail Carson Levine Robert B. Parker Mary Stewart 18 Julia Fitzgerald = Julia Watson = Jane deVere Joan Johnston Laura Parker Glenda Sanders = Glenda Sands Peg Sutherland = Katheryn Brett Phylis Ann Warady 19 Laurie R. King Damon Knight Tanith Lee Lynn Armistead McKee = Lynn Sholes Mark Shepherd John Morgan Wilson 20 A.A. Attanasio James P. Blaylock Jude Deveraux George R.R. Martin Keith Roberts Lee Scofield = Ruth Scofield Katherine Sutcliffe Natasha Usher 21 Fannie Flagg Stephen King = Richard Bachman = John Swithen Cathryn Ladd = Cathryn Ladame = Cathryn Baldwin Tracy Sumner H.G. Wells Mary Anne Wilson 22 Elizabeth Bear Jo Beverley Gail Bowen Aleta Boudreaux Jody Gehrman Rosamunde Pilcher = Jane Fraser Fay Weldon 23 Baroness Emmulska Orczy 24 Janet Berliner John Brunner David Drake F. Scott Fitzgerald Monica Jackson John Kessel Cheryl Reavis = Cinda Richards 25 William Faulkner Barbara Freethy = Kristina Logan Elizabeth Lane = Lisa Lancaster Fay Robinson Shel Silverstein 26 Roger MacBride Allen Minette Walters 27 Barbara Bonham = Sara North (#1) Roberta Gellis = Priscilla Hamilton Barbara Ferry Johnson Janice Kaiser = ½R.J. Kaiser 28 Maureen Child = Ann Carberry = Sarah Hart = Kathleen Kane Steve Frazee = Dean Jennings Lynde Howard = Lynsey Stevens Aghostwriter's Nest Marcia Muller Sjana 29 Stan Berenstain Gail Link Kristie Leigh Maguire Barbara Michaels = Elizabeth Peters 30 Jay Brandon Truman Capote Chris Dolley Ayadh Farooq Nicola Griffith S.M. Stirling Antoinette Stockenberg = Antoinette Hale = Antoinette Hardy