Talk:Upcoming ERB suggestions/@comment-24094060-20120909200541

Sorry for breaking the combo on comments (777 comments), but I need to talk about which authors to use.

There are two groups of authors: ones who write many different novels/book series, and those who get famous by writing just a book series (or occasionally a spin-off series) which is more popular than the author themselves. Of course, the authors of the latter group can still become quite famous, but they are just known by their name or books they write. The authors they should use in ERBs should be of the first group, who write enough series to have them known for a long time. By this, I mean like they had done in Seuss vs Shakespeare. We all know who they were. Dr. Seuss wrote many children's books that we read as kids (and even now, maybe) and Shakespeare wrote many plays and poems (which we probably read in high school, college, or even before that).

Those authors that have just one series making them famous don't completely have an impossibility of being used, but there are others who made money by writing more series than they have. The authors that have a one-time series making them money are J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephenie Meyer, C.S. Lewis, Rick Riordan, and Suzanne Collins. R.L. Stein may also be in that list, because he is just known for making Goosebumps. Lemony Snicket is also considered one of these, he only made A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I feel like who could be in one with that suspicious attitude of his. The other authors, who make many popular books, not just a few, are Edgar Allen Poe (more of a poet, making horror stories, but I can really see him being in one), Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and others I can't remember), and Stephen King (a pretty long list). I don't know who Jules Verne or H.P. Lovecraft is, but it doesn't seem like an intriguing title for a battle.

And with no ERBs for 3 months now, it may seem like they'll never do one, but they will actually make it up to us by doing one every monday for 3 months, take a break, then do it again. That would be 6 battles for 3 months, or 12 per year, as usual. All will be explained here: http://www.erboh.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4938.