Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
Novels are longer than life.