All Nancy Thayer Books In Order Stepping (1980) Together they have two children, who sometimes come to visit, bringing along Thayer’s many grandchildren. Thayer lives on Nantucket with her husband and cats, where they’ve lived for 39 years now. Let It Snow, a novel published in 2019, was even made into a Hallmark movie called Nantucket Noel in 2021. Thayer’s novels have also been translated into many different languages around the world.

Since then she has published over 35 novels which have made their way onto bestseller lists for the New York Times as well as appeared in Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmo UK. (I bought Darkest Evening of the Year when it came out.I sold it at a used book store).Nancy Thayer published her first novel, Stepping, in 1980. It's caused me to borrow Koontz'z new books from the library before I buy. Koontz, King and some other writers (Patterson for example) can pretty much publish anything with their name on it.

I suppose it could also be that there is a contractual obligation for a book and has to be delivered. I once called them 'rent books' about another extremely prolific author, that someone said 'Oh, I need a rent check, I'll turn out a book'. I think most of us have had the same thought. You mentioned wondering if these were just written for a paycheck. The add campaign, the synopsis, it sounded like such a good idea to turn out to be so pathetically bad. But the one that I really hated and found just worse than I could imagine was 'Your heart Belongs to Me'. The one you mentioned (Darkest Evening of the Year) was a major disappointment especially since he's done so many really good 'dog as hero' books. I have been a big fan of what people are calling 'the new' Koontz books and some are among mu favorites, but then there are the last few. (He went through a period where they all seemed to read like 'screen plays' but I think that had to do with his brief and disappointing brush with movies). I found that Koontz books were usually good to 'workman-like. My wife though like you was a fan of both. (: ) there were quite a few King books I disliked. And, (see how daring I am, I'll even start a sentence with 'And'.

Nick: I was never really a King fan, like a lot of people I liked The Stand, It and some others, but not all.

The Taking by Dean Koontz