I PASSED TWO MILLION WORDS THIS YEAR!
Posted on December 22, 2019
2019 was another productive year. I started with a word count of 1,874,990.
Here's what I wrote this year:
-The God Wheel: 61,584 words
-Arcana Creek: 73,687 words
-Ty Wallace Versus the Hereafter (first half): 25,221 words
Total for 2019: 150,482 words
Lifetime new total: 2,025,472 words
I'm incredibly happy about this accomplishment. I think I'll get close to 2.2 million by the end of 2020.
Here's what I plan on releasing in 2020:
-With a Side of Universal Destruction in April
-Ty Wallace Versus the Hereafter in August
-This Lemon Saves the World in October
December sales picked up. I appreciate how so many of you bought the entire four-book Irving series this month and the nice uptick in print sales across the board on my recent books. Great to see folks trying out The Powers That Flee, Ghost Coast, and many others.
Enjoy your holidays and I'll see you in the new year with even more great reads.
I leave you with the back cover summary for With a Side of Universal Destruction:
Bad luck happens to Will Strooter when he's away from his goldfish. And today looks like it could bring a whirlwind of trouble as he awakens to find his fish belly up. When his most recent manager accuses him of being a dark cloud of misfortune and the cause of a confounding workplace glitch and bizarre happenstance, Will is certain he'll need to look for other gainful employment.
His parade of bad luck continues when he barely evades an alien hit squad in a grocery store parking lot and is whisked off into space by a take-charge alien warrior more concerned with the cosmic artifact embedded within his rather lacking mortal frame.
In fact, several alien races are convinced the earthling has an ancient anomaly tucked away in his psyche that, if extracted, could either bring unlimited power and sway or end all of lemony-fresh time and space. Strooter does what any hunted human alone in the wild and woolly galactic empire would do to survive – he surrounds himself with a ragtag band of misfits and hopes for the best. Along the way, he may or may not destroy a prison planet, race into the open arms of a death cult, and anger a powerful god whose disciples are sentient asteroids. Oh, and save all of reality. That goes without saying, of course.