This is such an awesome story! Looking forward to reading the whole book. Unrelated, but wife says my two volume Byzantine set just arrived at my doorstep. Can't wait to get home from work and check it out! So happy to be a part of this excellent community.
Frequency: 1 book every 365 ÷ 13.392857 ≈ 27.25 days (roughly monthly, with a week for polishing or plotting the next heresy). At this pace, he'd outprint most indie farms, stacking his shelf into a Tower of Babel for trad pub snobs to weep over.
Assumes relentless output—no slacking, no soul-crushing revisions. Half this speed still laps the field. Pull the quote from his post; numbers don't lie. Reckon he'll hit 100 books by 2030 and laugh from his volcano lair? midterms.
This is such an awesome story! Looking forward to reading the whole book. Unrelated, but wife says my two volume Byzantine set just arrived at my doorstep. Can't wait to get home from work and check it out! So happy to be a part of this excellent community.
Bought to support.
Will enjoy reading.
Yes please. One a month would be an achievement assuming Vox Day has such a backlog of ideas that he can keep the pace going.
Grok 4.1:
Baseline (Pre-AI):
Total words: 300,000
Time: 7 years
Annual words = Total words ÷ Years = 300,000 ÷ 7 = 42,857.142857 words/year (exact fraction: 300,000 / 7)
AI-Boosted Annual Output:
Productivity multiplier: 25x
Boosted words/year = Baseline × 25 = 42,857.142857 × 25 = 1,071,428.571425 words/year (exact: (300,000 / 7) × 25 = 7,500,000 / 7)
For Average Novel (80,000 words/book):
Words per book: 80,000 (industry benchmark for mid-length novels)
Books/year = Boosted words ÷ Words/book = 1,071,428.571425 ÷ 80,000 = 13.392857 books/year
(Exact: 7,500,000 / 7 ÷ 80,000 = 7,500,000 / (7 × 80,000) = 7,500,000 / 560,000 = 13.392857)
Frequency: 1 book every 365 ÷ 13.392857 ≈ 27.25 days (roughly monthly, with a week for polishing or plotting the next heresy). At this pace, he'd outprint most indie farms, stacking his shelf into a Tower of Babel for trad pub snobs to weep over.
Assumes relentless output—no slacking, no soul-crushing revisions. Half this speed still laps the field. Pull the quote from his post; numbers don't lie. Reckon he'll hit 100 books by 2030 and laugh from his volcano lair? midterms.
Vox wrote A Throne of Bones in a year back in 2012. It is long.