Some authors only have one good book in them to give.

I read a book, call it X, that I really liked by a female science fiction author, back when I was reading them all, and thought the world of it. Then tried some others from her and meh. Then read an interview where the author mentioned that book X was the only book she wrote where the book wrote itself. And I thought, the other books came to be… how? I guess put on the page kicking and screaming, it would seem.