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

On 8/30/2022 8:14 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 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).

You forgot J. K. Rowling.  1.2 billion books sold IIRC.

Lynn