Can you believe it??

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December of this year, 2022, marks the tenth anniversary (in a way) of Jamie Brodie. Cited to Death was published in December 2012. I started writing it in June of that year. In a way, it seems like yesterday. But it also feels like much longer than ten years.

I’m not yet sure exactly what to do to celebrate the anniversary later this year. More on that as I think about it! But I thought I’d start with some fun statistics.

Number of Jamie Brodie Mysteries (so far): 21Number of words in those 21 books: 1,059,682Average number of words per book: 50,461Longest book: Resigned to Death, 69,338 wordsShortest book: Encountered to Death, 31,903 wordsTotal number of Jamie words I’ve written, including short stories, a serialized novella, character interviews, Josh Lanyon Advent Calendar pieces, unused scenes, and the beginnings of three more Jamie pieces: 1,274,351

WOW.

I hope the next 1.2 million words don’t take as long!