Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ...

On 8/29/2022 11:34 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Lynn McGuire  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  From David Weber's Facebook:
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/david.weber.5621/posts/pfbid02FjnvX56nzzcej5PLiPn6n4fy6KHygEm2LVihw38KXcGyYLAD1sDCSaQpLPoXWKuDl
>>
>> I'm 70 this October. I sold the first novel thirty-three years ago.
>> Since then, I have published (or have currently turned in, awaiting
>> production) 74 solo and collaborative novels, which works out to roughly
>> 2.24 per year. That doesn't count the anthologies, of course.
>> I lost roughly 2 years to the concussion, and about a year and a half to
>> the Covid, so let's call it 30 years, not 33, which brings the
>> production up to 2.5 per year. And let's assume that I write for another
>> ten years, which (at the moment, and barring any anticipated encounters
>> with mortality) seems entirely plausible.
> 
> (Hal Heydt)
> Not in the same league in terms of either popularity or volume,
> but Dorothy was still writing at 80, including her final piece 6
> days before she died.  (There are several 3-ring binders in the
> house with either WIPs or finished but unsold works.)

David Weber says that he has sold over eight million books to date and I 
do not doubt it.  He is at 45 ? 48 ? books published now.  Very, very 
popular.  Most science fiction with a few fantasy books thrown in.

I just gave my wife James Patterson's new autobiography.  He claims to 
have 30+ works in progress at any given moment.  And he writes them out 
in longhand on pads.  By the time he hit the fifth rewrite, he is done. 
300 million copies sold.

Lynn