I'm glad to hear McKinley's doing well enough these days to have finished another book! I used to follow her blog many years ago in the depths of time, and didn't know that she'd been having struggles.
Hmmmmm I actually don't have any insta-buy authors; I guess that's just not how I approach book ownership. There are some authors (eg Zen Cho, Nghi Vo, T Kingfisher, Ann Leckie) for whom I'll almost inevitably end up owning most their books eventually, but I nearly always want to have a chance to read a book first before knowing if I want to commit bookshelf space to it! Plus sometimes authors will come out with a book that's a different kind of thing than their usual and it just won't be for me - like T Kingfisher's occasional horror-genre novels. Pretty much the only times I preorder books are when they're part of a series I already know I'm super into, with a few other rare exceptions.
When I was a teen I would have had some insta-buy authors though (Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, James Alan Gardner, Robin McKinley), but at that time in my life I didn't have the budget to back up my book-avarice!
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Hmmmmm I actually don't have any insta-buy authors; I guess that's just not how I approach book ownership. There are some authors (eg Zen Cho, Nghi Vo, T Kingfisher, Ann Leckie) for whom I'll almost inevitably end up owning most their books eventually, but I nearly always want to have a chance to read a book first before knowing if I want to commit bookshelf space to it! Plus sometimes authors will come out with a book that's a different kind of thing than their usual and it just won't be for me - like T Kingfisher's occasional horror-genre novels. Pretty much the only times I preorder books are when they're part of a series I already know I'm super into, with a few other rare exceptions.
When I was a teen I would have had some insta-buy authors though (Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, James Alan Gardner, Robin McKinley), but at that time in my life I didn't have the budget to back up my book-avarice!