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

Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> writes:
>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.

"Very Very popular" is Steven King and James Patterson (350 & 275 million books sold each),
or Bill Shakespeare (4 billion), or Spock's favorite Harold Robbins (700 million).