Two million words!
It’s time to do another one of my overview posts of the word count of my published works, since it’s been nearly three years since the last one and I’ve gained a significant number of original published works in the interim. Plus, as you can tell from the title, I’ve just achieved another milestone! With the recent release of my second Star Trek Adventures game campaign The Gravity of the Crime, I have now surpassed 2 million words of paid, published fiction!
The list below includes all my paid fiction that has been published as of February 2019, plus two upcoming releases that have already been copyedited so that I have final word counts, namely Crimes of the Hub and Star Trek: The Original Series — The Captain’s Oath. It excludes the sold stories “The Melody Lingers” (Galaxy’s Edge magazine) and “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” (the Footprints in the Stars anthology) because they haven’t been copyedited yet, but they should be around 4400 and 5000 words, respectively. There’s another story for which I’m currently waiting for a contract and copyedits, so I may update this list once that or the others come together. I’ve left out the unpaid essays I’ve contributed to various sites, since it’s hard to keep track of them all, and I do so much unsolicited blathering online as it is.
ORIGINAL FICTION
Default/”Only Superhuman” universe:
Novels:
Only Superhuman: 118,000 words
Stories:
“Aggravated Vehicular Genocide” (revised): 12,100
“Among the Wild Cybers of Cybele”: 9400
“The Weight of Silence”: 7600
“The Caress of a Butterfly’s Wing”: 8900
“Murder on the Cislunar Railroad”: 8200
“Twilight’s Captives”: 10500
“Aspiring to Be Angels”: 7900
Total story count: 64,600 words
Additional material:
Among the Wild Cybers Historical Overview, Glossary, and Afterword: 6500
Total default universe: 189,100 words
Hub universe:
“The Hub of the Matter”: 9300
“Home is Where the Hub Is”: 9800
“Make Hub, Not War”: 9800
Hub Space: Tales from the Greater Galaxy: 33,300 (preceding stories + 4400 words new material)
“Hubpoint of No Return”: 12,400
“…And He Built a Crooked Hub”: 12,500
“Hubstitute Creatures”: 14,200
Crimes of the Hub: 45,600 (preceding stories + 6500 words new material)
Total: 78,900 words
Other:
“No Dominion”: 7900
“Abductive Reasoning”: 4100
Total: 12,000 words
Total original fiction count: 280,000 words
MARVEL FICTION
X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: 83,500
Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder: 71,000
Total Marvel novel count: 154,500 words
STAR TREK FICTION
Novels:
Ex Machina: 110,000
Orion’s Hounds: 105,000
The Buried Age: 132,000
Places of Exile: 55,000
Greater Than the Sum: 78,500
Over a Torrent Sea: 89,000
Watching the Clock: 125,000
Forgotten History: 85,500
A Choice of Futures: 81,000
Tower of Babel: 84,000
Uncertain Logic: 109,000
Live by the Code: 106,000
The Face of the Unknown: 95,000
Patterns of Interference: 85,500
The Captain’s Oath: 106,000
Total ST novel count: 1,446,500 words
Novellas:
Aftermath: 26,000
Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again: 28,900
Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within: 25,400
The Collectors: 35,400
Time Lock: 26,500
Shield of the Gods: 28,700
Total: 170,900
Novelettes:
“…Lov’d I Not Honor More “: 12,000
“Brief Candle”: 9800
“As Others See Us”: 9100
“Friends With the Sparrows”: 10,300
“Empathy”: 11,000
Total: 52,200
Total ST short fiction count: 223,100 words
Star Trek Adventures RPG campaigns:
“Call Back Yesterday”: 8200
“The Gravity of the Crime”: 10,500
Total ST RPG count: 18,700
Total ST fiction count: 1,688,300 words
STAR TREK MAGAZINE ARTICLES
“Points of Contention”: 1040
“Catsuits are Irrelevant”: 1250
“Top 10 Villains #8: Shinzon”: 820
“Almost a Completely New Enterprise”: 800
“The Remaking of Star Trek“: 1350
“Vulcan Special: T’Pau”: 910
“The Ultimate Guide: Voyager Season 3″: 1170 (not counting episode guide)
“Star Trek 45s #11: Concerning Flight”: 1000
Total article count: about 8350 words
All told:
Novels: 1,719,000 words
Short fiction: 385,100 words
RPG campaigns: 18,700 words
Nonfiction: 8350 words
Total fiction: 2,122,800 words
Total overall: 2,131,150 words
(And just a reminder — if you enjoy any of my books, please post reviews of them on Amazon or other sites where books are sold. The more reviews they have, the more notice they can attract.)
