7. Danielle Steel
Steel is a prolific romance writer having penned over 100 novels, almost all of them being bestsellers. I am not picking on Steel because she writes books in a genre I don't like. To be perfectly honest with you, I've never read one of her books, but because of how many books she's sold compared to much superior authors, she deserves to be on the list. Steele, is obviously an adequate writer but she has a problem with originality. As mentioned prior, she has published over 100 novels. Often publishing a few in a year; but they are almost identical to each other! Pick up any random Danielle Steel novel and the story is pretty much the same. Almost all of them are based on rich families who are facing some type of problem like blackmail or fraud. Which would be okay, if she wasn't the fourth best selling author of ALL TIME!