Let me count the words
I realized it’s been nearly three years since I last posted a list of the word counts of my published works. I’m curious to see how much I’ve added since then. This is counting everything I’ve sold and finished writing to date, so there are a couple that haven’t yet been published.
ORIGINAL NOVELS
Only Superhuman: 115,000
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
“Aggravated Vehicular Genocide”: 12,000 words
“Among the Wild Cybers of Cybele”: 9400
“The Hub of the Matter”: 9300
“The Weight of Silence”: 7600
“No Dominion”: 7900
“Home is Where the Hub Is”: 9800
“Make Hub, Not War”: 9800
Total original fiction count: 180,800 words
MARVEL NOVELS
X-Men: Watchers on the Walls: 83,500
Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder: 71,000
Total Marvel novel count: 154,500 words
STAR TREK 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: 80,500
Tower of Babel (pending): 84,000
Total ST novel count: 944,500 words
STAR TREK SHORT FICTION
“Aftermath”: 26,000
“…Lov’d I Not Honor More “: 12,000
“Brief Candle”: 9800
“As Others See Us”: 9100
Mere Anarchy: “The Darkness Drops Again”: 28,900
“Friends With the Sparrows”: 10,300
“Empathy”: 11,000
Typhon Pact: “The Struggle Within”: 25,000
“The Collectors” (pending): 35,000
Total ST short fiction count: 167,100 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: Star Trek: Voyager Season 3″: 1170 (not counting episode guide)
“”Star Trek 45s #11: Concerning Flight”: 1000
Total article count: 8340 words (Counting only paid articles — excluding articles written for websites)
All told:
Novels: 1,214,000 words
Short fiction: 347,900 words
Nonfiction: 8,340 words
Total fiction: 1,561,900 words
Total overall: 1,570,240 words
So since last time, I’m up 365,000 words in novels, I’ve more than doubled my short fiction count, and I’ve gained a measly 2,170 words in paid articles. In total, in the past three years, I’ve increased my published (or soon-to-be-published) word count by over 50 percent!
Note that I’ve now written over 1 million words of published (or nearly-published) Star Trek fiction. My next novel, Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic — which I’ve just been cleared by CBS to begin writing — is contracted to be 80-100,000 words, so that will put me over a million words in Star Trek novels alone. That’s one more milestone to look forward to.
