DEMONSOULED – the complete word count of the series

Now that the DEMONSOULED series is complete with SOUL OF SWORDS, I decided to amuse myself by calculating the total word count of the books. Word count is one of those things that writers care about, as writers are often paid by the word, but it generally doesn’t interest most readers. (You can tell whether or not someone is a writer by asking how long a book is – a writer will say “about 100,000 words”, while someone who reads a lot but doesn’t write will simply cite the page count. Or, in the modern era, the number of Kindle locations.)

So how many words long is the DEMONSOULED series? Let’s find out!

Demonsouled: 110,000

Soul of Tyrants: 117,000

Soul of Serpents: 123,000

Soul of Dragons: 114,000 words

Soul of Sorcery : 138,000 words

Soul of Skulls: 142,000 words

Soul of Swords: 148,000 words

The Dragon’s Shadow & short stories: 30,000 words

So a grand total of 922,000 words in 12 years. That comes to approximately 2,363 book pages, more or less, if my math is right.

Of course, I didn’t do anything with DEMONSOULED from 2005 to 2011, so of those 922,000 words, I wrote 695,000 of them in the last two years or so. I have been busy!

-JM