This year I’m planning on releasing two entirely new full-length novels (the rest of the Jokka trilogy). Plus we’re finishing up Earthrise, which will go to e-book/print afterwards. And then Godkin 2 will also hit retail. Plus there’s the Guidebook, and at the end of the year I’ll be collecting the comics for binding. Someone tell me that four novels in one year is enough, and that I really need to stop staring at my production schedule and thinking I’m not publishing enough…
Wait, I shouldn’t ask this question of people who are waiting to read whatever I’ve got, should I. -_-
Honestly it’s the end of this year that’s got me dithering. What do I do when I’m done serializing Earthrise? I need to write something new or I’ll be sad. I am sad when I don’t write. But what, but what. Do I satisfy that urge by writing an entire new serial? Do I write something new offline while also writing a new serial? Do I write something new offline while serializing something already written? *dither*
I got to know Robert Sawyer at worldcon in 1994. He told about his year. He’d written a ‘different’ novel on spec. He was going to send it to his agent but desceided to prepare a 1 page ‘treatment’ for another novel.
He sent the ‘new line’ novel and the treatment to his agent. Some weeks later he got the reply. His regular publisher hated the ‘new line’ novel, but loved the ‘treatment’ and wanted it and its sequel by the end of 1995. His agent then went to the next publisher on the block and they loved the ‘new line’ novel, and wanted it and a sequel by the end of 1995.
So when I met him in Sept. 1994 he was finishing the novel edits for the last of the 1994 novels, and had the on spec novel’s edits to do, and the three novels (one with a treatment) to write in the next year. He was going to not be available for convention activities (can not accept the time away from writing) for 1995.
Most writers I buy (as a reader) put out about 2½ novels per year. Occasionally that might make 6 in two years, but not often.
Consider yourself kicked in the head by Spots.
Keep on dreaming.
Ed Wilson
What Ed said.
But if insanity bites you at the end of the year, I vote for the Spots sequel or the Black Blossom sequel.