In 2019 I released not one but two novels: Crown of Blood (the
final part of The Bloody Crown Trilogy), and Sir Edric and the Corpse Lord (the
latest entry in the comedic Hero of Hornska series).
That sounds incredibly productive, but of course all the
writing was done far earlier, and 2019 was spent editing and proofreading, as
well as sorting the covers.
Making money from creative writing is very difficult. Even
the relatively successful make less than £10,000 a year on average, and I am
not, alas, relatively successful (which is annoying, not least because most of
my books have ratings of 4.5 stars, but there we are).
On the plus side, I have been making something through
writing on other matters (mostly travel and gambling, but also the odd spot of
science, and financial news in the past. If you’re interested, do hit me up on
Twitter, @MorrisF1. Also available for creative writing, particularly
fantasy/sci-fi).
Naturally, this takes up a lot of time, and involves a lot
of writing, with more emphasis on good places to eat and less focus on dragon
attacks. Because of this my creative writing time has been massively reduced.
Every so often I manage to get a little done on a completely new work-in-progress
in a new setting, but that’s moving very slowly indeed.
I’m not so bad at the writing business, but the
self-promotion and marketing is another story entirely. And in a marketplace
that’s saturated, that means I make very little from creative writing. I’m not
stopping entirely but it’s very much on the backburner.
You can still find my many excellent books (including assorted
anthologies) at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thaddeus-White/e/B008C6RU98
and (solo works and the Prey anthology) https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Thaddeus6th
They may be available elsewhere too, thanks to Smashwords’
distribution system.
Similarly, this blog isn’t dead, but it will be a bit
sleepier. After a day of writing a lot for work, the desire to write a lot for
free is less appealing (besides which, I’ve rambled here for a decade so I’ve
said quite a lot already).
Anyway, I thought it’d be courteous to write an update.
There is a very low chance I’ll be releasing anything creative next year. Beyond
that depends on how things go.
