25 books in 30 months!
Don't worry it only gets crazier. Note the last line of this passage.
Some novelists are obsessed by plot pacing and character development, others by a literary turn of phrase. For Mr. Blake, it is about speed, and volume. Mr. Blake, who self-publishes his books, has released 25 books in the last 30 months.
He wrote one of his best-selling books, the 229-page thriller "JET," in just 16 days. He churns out 7,000 to 10,000 words a day and often works from eight in the morning until midnight. He spends many of those hours on a treadmill desk, clocking eight to 10 miles.
Writing 7 to 10,000 words will running ten miles! That's quite a multi-tasker.
He's not the only prolific writer out there self-publishing.
Some self-published authors produce more books a year than many established writers put out in a lifetime. Jon Hargrove, who self-publishes vampire novels and mysteries under the pen name J.R. Rain, released 18 books in 2013, including eight that he co-wrote with other credited authors.
Now I agree with his philosophy and have even written about it here, that there must be a library of books in order for readers to find ya. It's part of the reason I'm self-publishing mine. But here's a key in the second to last paragraph of the article:
To ward off the sloppiness that inevitably comes with such speed, Mr. Osso pays two editors and a proofreader to comb through his books for errors and typos. His content editor, Dorothy Zemach, a freelance editor who used to work for Cambridge University Press, says it can be taxing to keep up. "There are evenings when my husband says, 'Don't check your email, there will be another book from Russell,' " she says.
Still and all I need to get to writing!
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