This is an author who you’ll automatically buy their newest release, no questions asked, and read it as soon as you get home.
For me, it’s Stephen King! I’ve rarely been disappointed by a King novel (although, ironically, one of his latest releases Fairy Tale that I preordered actually was a miss for me. Still doesn’t deter my love for him!)
I think it’s awesome that there are writers in this world we would spend money for at the drop of a hat, it’s a type of trust we have with the author to basically guarantee enjoyment from their latest work.
So who’s your automatic author?
At this point, for me, no author has that “no questions asked” cred with me. Pretty much now it’s more about the series than the author. At one point, GRRM, Robert Jordan, RA Salvatore, Brandon Sanderson, Steven King, JK Rowling, etc… had some of that, but we all know how GRRM is now, Jordan’s plot lines just became to convuluted to be comprehensible without continuously going back and rereading books that it became nauseating, Salvatore just became the same old same old Drzzt story, Steven King, esp early on had essentially a lot of the same plot lines with the Legion demon in every book I read, and I’ll probably get some pushback but I really couldn’t get into the JFK story, never finished it. Rowling is probably obvious at this point with Cursed Child, the detective series, and the story of the Dursley wannabe Casual Vacancy book. Sanderson is the closest in that I’ll auto buy the Radiance books, but will decide on the rest.