Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 190 books, 58 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has 24 million copies in print in 34 languages.

He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as the unique Clockwork Angels steampunk trilogy with legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Wake the Dragon and Terra Incognita fantasy trilogies, and humorous Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series and The Dragon Business series.

He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to three rock CDs. Anderson is the director of the graduate program in Publishing at Western Colorado University, and he and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press.

He worked on the recent films Dune Part One and Part Two as well as the Dune: Prophecy TV series from MAX.

His most recent novels are Nether Station, Horn Dogs, Persephone, and Princess of Dune (with Brian Herbert).

Million Dollar Productivity by Kevin J. Anderson

Life is crazy and hectic for most of us.

We're surrounded with personal and family obligations, jobs, fitness programs, virtual mountains of email, not to mention videogames, TV, smartphones, social networking, and millions of things to check out on the web.

With all those distractions, how does an aspiring author find time to write?

And when you do find the time, how do you make the most of it?

Award-winning and #1 international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is one of the most prolific authors in the business. He has published over 125 novels—an average of five novels a year, every year, for the past quarter century. Anderson has taught numerous writing seminars and lectured on productivity, and here he shares his tips on how to find the time to write, and how to make the most of that time.

 

REVIEWS

  • "I've heard Kevin J. Anderson give a panel speech about productivity on a couple of occasions. This book expands on his chat to give a succinct and reachable goal for the writer struggling to get something written. Unlike many "how to" guides, Mr. Anderson gives a solid background and gives the reader the tools necessary to get productive. In particular, Section 2 gives an understanding on the math behind productivity. Section 3, which is my favorite part of this book, gives eleven tips you can put in place immediately to ramp up your writing."

    – Reader review

  • "What can be said about Kevin J. Anderson? He is one of the best authors out there. Being who he is it's only natural that he would have valuable insight into the art and craft of writing. Mr. Anderson presents a day-in-the-life type perspective of himself, giving us a picture of how it is that he can be as prolific as he his."

    – Reader review
 

BOOK PREVIEW

Excerpt

Introduction

Back in the heyday of pulp fiction magazines, when

freelancers struggled to pay the bills by writing stories for half a cent per word (at most), they had to produce, produce, produce. Their motto was "Be prolific or starve." Armed only with manual typewriters and carbon paper, the most popular and productive writers managed to crank out entire novels in only a few days, stories and novelettes in a single sitting.

Today, with an arsenal of writing tools that includes word processors, email, scanners, internet research, lightning-fast printers, digital recorders, and voice-recognition software, it must be easy for modern authors to be even more prolific than their "prehistoric" predecessors. Right?

Life is crazy and hectic for most of us. We're surrounded with personal and family obligations, jobs, fitness programs, virtual mountains of email, not to mention videogames, TV, smartphones, social networking, and millions of things to check out on the web.

With all those distractions, how does an aspiring author find time to write?

And when you do find the time, how do you make the most of it?

That's what I'll show with this book. You don't have to be manically productive (though some of us consider that to be fun), but you will learn ways to get more writing out of every available moment.