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I just thought of another author who disappointed me terribly: Jean M. Auel.
I read and re-read Clan of the Cave Bear, and I liked several of the subsequent novels pretty well too. But the last two or three were just horrible. I kept thinking, "This can't be the same author, it is as if someone who never read the original books found the author's notes and just cobbled something together." The result was pretty much random and just felt odd. I wondered if she had some sort of contract to write a certain number of books and she just lost her enthusiasm.
I would enjoy that. I credit Jean Auel for teaching me how to make going down on a woman as unsexy as possible: use over and over the words 'tangy salt' and 'nodule.'
Imagine: "Now, my love, I'm going after all the tangy salt around your nodule." I can imagine a million wisecracks from my wife:
"That's even less sexy than ze benis unt za fagina on Dr. Ruth."
"Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a tangy salt shaker?"
"You make it sound like I have nodular furniture. Jeez. Either get to chomping or don't, but don't overcomplicate this."
"You are denied to read Jean Auel any more."
"With lines like that, how do you keep the packs of women away? Water cannon? Flashbangs?"
Having loved Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist and Ladder of Years, I picked up her newest one from the library, French Braid, and couldn't get past page 40. Really disappointing.
Two of my favorite writers...Jennifer Weiner and Laura Weisberger...have obviously gone "woke" in their past couple of books. Jennifer Weiner has put more "gay love " into her plots. When I read for escape, it has to be something I relate to...characters I can relate to. "Little Earthquakes", "Best Friends Forever". Not that I'm homophobic, I don't want to read about someone's other "life style" when I'm looking for some fun laid back reading. I liked her early stuff.
I don't want to sit down to read a "fun" book and find out it is a lecture about how white privileged I am.
I enjoyed Wally Lamb's first two novels; She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. The third one, The Hour I First Believed was a turn-off. He went overboard throwing in "issues" and "tragedies"
as well as sneaking in his own political views. P.U. On top of that, there were spelling errors - as if the novel was never proof read.
I agree about Stephen King. He needs to temper the sex, violence, supernatural and politics so you can
get more wrapped up in the story and the characters and not the author's pervy mindset.
Just about every one of my favorite writers.
Writers with contracts usually get paid an advance and that also usually(?) comes with a deadline.
That makes me wonder how that might affect the output, especially of a book that was good up until a crummy ending.
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On top of that, there were spelling errors - as if the novel was never proof read. 
