Basic Trope: A creator who has released one work, and almost nothing else.
- Straight: Bob publishes his book, Tropes, and never publishes anything else.
- Exaggerated: Bob publishes Tropes, and never writes any work ever again.
- Downplayed: Bob continues to get work in the field writing editorials and co-writing books after publishing Tropes, but he never writes another book by himself.
- Justified:
- Tropes sells so well and leaves readers so satisfied that Bob is able to retire off of the earnings from it, and does not receive requests for a continuation.
- Bob realizes that Tropes would be a Tough Act to Follow, so he decides to find work in another field.
- Tropes is a compendium on Bob's field of expertise, and he only releases updates on this book.
- troops (not tropes as the Tyop on the Cover would make you think) was Sergeant Bob's death-bed dictated autobiography. note
- Inverted: Bob writes as many books as humanly possible. Tropes is just one of many.
- Subverted:
- Bob releases another book after Tropes.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob releases his second book under a different name.
- Bob announces a sequel to Tropes, but it gets cancelled.
- Tropes was written as a group effort. Bob's second book is his solo work.
- Parodied: Bob publishes Tropes, makes sure only 1 copy of Tropes is published, and never writes anything else.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob publishes Seport a little while after Tropes.
- Enforced: Bob is legally prohibited from publishing a book after publishing Tropes.
- Lampshaded: "This is my first, last, and only, work in the publishing industry."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob decides to write only 1 book, and because he will not make a sequel, he decides to write whatever the hell he wants in it.
- Defied: Bob immediately begins work on his next book after finishing Tropes.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed:Wendy: You ever heard of Bob? He wrote Tropes!
Grant: And what else?
Wendy: Actually, that's it.
Back to One-Book Author, but don't expect any sequels anytime soon...
