Death
at Bethesda Falls – 34,500
Pain
Wears No Mask * - 96,000
Last
Chance Saloon – 40,000
The
Prague Manuscript * - 84,000
Blind
Justice at Wedlock – 38,400
The
Tehran Transmission * - 90,900
The
$300 Man – 40.018
Assignment
Kilimanjaro – 80,900
Bullets
for a Ballot – 31,900
Old
Guns – 37,250
Death
is Another Life * - 81,200
Odd
Shoes and Medals (biog) – 38,300
Write
a Western in 30 Days (nonfic) – 49,700
When
the Flowers are in Bloom (anthology) * - 39,900
Blood
of the Dragon Trees – 79,800
Spanish
Eye - 51,900
Sudden
Vengeance – 58,500
The
Magnificent Mendozas – 40,500
Wings
of the Overlord (due September) – 106,600
Catalyst
(due December) – 54,700
[*
= out-of-print]
Total word-count, 1 million, 174 thousand, 950 words – since 2007. That’s not a lot by the standards of many prolific authors. James Reasoner usually aims to write that many words per year!
They’re
my published words in book format, of course. The actual word-count of books
produced (including those discarded, and those not published [yet]) will
doubtless add to another million.
A
writer some years back commented that you really need to write a million words
before you reach competency as an author. The search for the writer who said
that is an intriguing one, and may have been Ray Bradbury or John D. McDonald;
see this interesting article on the subject:
Naturally,
in the above list I haven’t counted A
Fistful of Legends (which I edited). One day, I’ll do a word-count of the
published short stories, perhaps.
For
interest, the three books that are works in progress (Catacomb, To Be King and The Khyber Chronicle), they clock up another
46,900 words!
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