Some writers write super quickly. Some writers, like myself, write slowly. Once a writer has been writing for a few years, she knows, on average, how long a book will take.
For me, it takes 2 full months to write a 56,000 word/224 page story (using the traditional 250 words/page calculation – each bookseller lists a different page count for my stories). That’s writing full time 7 days a week, adding time for revisions and edits.
If you paid me a million dollars, I couldn’t produce the same quality of story in 1 month, i.e. half that time. That isn’t possible for me.
A reader suggested I write longer stories in the same length of time. Again, that’s not possible for me. A 112,000 word/448 page story would take 4 months, double the time. It might take longer because that’s not a length of book I’m currently comfortable writing.
Writing the 56,000 word count stories allows me to have a release every 2 months, which is pretty darn good. This is only possible because I self-publish. A big New York publisher wouldn’t agree to release my stories that frequently.
Because I have two series on the go, there is a wait of 4 months for a new book in each series. I alternate series so readers of one series don’t have to wait longer than readers of the other series. This also keeps my muse happy. I like the slight change of worlds.
I plan to release like this for decades, keeping to the same slow but steady pace. I have many, MANY stories to write. It’s exciting.
Note: Other writers write at different speeds, have different word counts for their books, different number of series on the go, different ways of publishing. This isn’t a competition. We’re creating unique works of art. We’ll have unique release schedules.
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Taking Vengeance
The only force stronger than their hate is their love.
Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human.
Then she blows up his ship, blasting to bits his preconceived notions about the enemy.
Astrid, aka the Buoir Berserker, hates all cyborgs. They killed her entire clan, including her baby sister. The warrior female has vowed to hunt down and destroy the enemy. When a savage cyborg arrogantly puts his hard, sexy body within her reach, she does the only thing a female can do—she peppers his muscular physique with projectiles.
The more passionately they fight, the stronger their attraction becomes. Neither of them will relent on their missions, yet they can’t keep their hands off each other. Their battle will either end in love to last an eternity or in death.
Taking Vengeance is Book 12 in the Cyborg Sizzle series and is a STAND-ALONE story.
It is also an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
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