[barney54]

I agree that it's probably pretty common. I thought that Tabatha King, Stephen King's wife, did a lot of work on his novels (but I can't find a link for that right now). The fantasy author Robert Jordan's wife, Harriett McDougal, is an editor and worked with Jordan and others.

[the_af]

That's surprising. Stephen Kings writes at length about his own creative process and habits (he wrote a full book about it, On Writing) and he never mentions Tabitha doing "lots of work" on his novels. He does mention she is an accomplished writer and that he asks her for opinions, but lots of work? Sounds like an urban legend.

[phone[phone]]

Perhaps not now, but probably a bit more work on the novels he can't remember writing due to substance abuse problems.

[the_af]

That's easy: George Stark wrote those. Or maybe Richard Bachman.