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When I'm in the flow of writing I can produce 2-3k words per day without difficulty; that's about a novel every 2 months or so.
Of course I'm not writing constantly, but I try to pace myself so I'm writing something (even if just pounding at a rough draft) and working on editing something else. I find I am more often bored just in general if I'm not working on a project, so I try to keep busy.
I don't really worry about a release schedule; I just publish when a book is ready. I understand the saturation issue, but there are authors who get around it. Nora Roberts has published something like 3-4 novels a year for the last several decades, and they still top the bestseller charts despite being very much formula driven. David Gemmell wrote about 20 novels that are all basically twists on the same concept (though with distinct and memorable characters). I have found that sometimes I need to be careful of repeating plot points I used in past books, but in a sense most genre fiction is going to be repetitive in some ways, whether you are talking about romance, mystery, or fantasy.
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