The Race To Beat Patrick Rothfuss To The Punch

 

Four days after the publication of my second novel, The Apprentice In The Master’s Shadow, I stumbled upon an article by the publishing industry veteran, Jane Friedman, in which she presented the startling statistic that a little over 80% of published authors quit writing after their third book. In the almost two years since reading the figures, I have on several occasions thought about this article, on account of the challenges I’ve endured while struggling to write my third novel, during a...