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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Ahhh there is the qualifier that you deliberately left out! You cannot make such a definitive statement when only thinking about YOUR particular favorite of genre books.
A good many romance writers can crank out several books a year. If they are stuck with a BPH, they are limited to releasing one a year.
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Actually, many romance writers do release more than one book a year through the major publishers, some by way of pseudonyms, others not.
My own point is that while it's not difficult for a full-time writer to produce two or three novels a year, it is sufficiently difficult for someone holding down a day job to keep up that level of production that for part-time writers it's the exception rather than the rule.
Another thing to remember is that length often depends on genre, and while many category romances come in around 60-70K words, fantasy novels often clock in around twice that length or longer.