An interesting statistic...

[seawasp]

(also posted on FB)

Here's an interesting statistic -- possibly one that will not happen to me again!

In the space of six months, I will have FOUR new books come out:

_Polychrome_ (self-published Oz novel, scheduled for November)
_Paradigms Lost_ (vastly expanded and revised _Digital Knight_) in December
_Castaway Planet_ (New Boundaryverse novel set ~200 years later) in February,
and
_Phoenix in Shadow_ (second book in the Balanced Sword trilogy) in May.

That's probably nothing for the big boys, but it's pretty stunning to me.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive!

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Proud of you, we are.

[theoldone.livejournal.com]

I'll be waiting eagerly for all four!

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Oh very nice. :D

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

*making notes in calendar*

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

I dunno, four books in 6 months seems something worth crowing about for anyone up to Steven King/Isaac Asimov levels of Big Name Author.

Bravo!

[Edited]: wroth and worth are somewhat different words, after all ;>.>

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's getting up there with James Patterson. Not that many authors even do 2 a year, it seems like.

Congrats, looking forward to them.

[gary-jordan.livejournal.com]

way to go!

[hms42]

Congratulations.

[dsrtao]

It's only common in romance, where a hiccup in publishing schedules plus having an author with multiple series means that you can run into weird situations -- I think Grace Burrowes will have eight books out this year.

In SF, the last time I heard of a situation like this was Charlie Stross's 2004, in which _The Atrocity Archive_ and _The Family Trade_ and _Iron Sunrise_ all came off the presses.

So: awesome!

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I'm told that authors start making real money once they have a certain number of books out. The number I heard was ten.

It will be nice to have a strong backlist.

[saintonge.livejournal.com]

        Well, that's not a big deal for Eleanor Marie Robertson, aka Nora Roberts and J. D. Robb, but she's one of the most prolific and popular authors in the world.

        For damn near anyone else, though, it IS a big deal.