Hmm… let’s think about this for a moment. The average reading time per capita (in America), per day, is 15 minutes, and this number is dropping every year. I will assume 5% of the US population reads, lol. This gives us about 17,000,000 readers, or 4,250,000 hours of reading per day. That sounds like a lot! If the average book takes 9 hours to read, we get around 470,000 books per day, or 170,000,000 books per year. Wow!

Now, just for fun, let’s say your readers all read the same books. That 170,000,000 books per year plummets to just 10 books per year, 17,000,000 times. Obviously, this is an extreme example so, to keep it interesting, let’s assume they read a few different ones and make that number 1,000,000 unique books per year.

How many new books come out every year in America? About 4,000,000, which means roughly 3,000,000 new books get zero or only a handful of eyes… oh. These numbers are completely fabricated. They’re probably much worse.

If a new author wants readers to try their book, they need them to not read someone else’s book. This is basic business. There simply isn’t enough readers for the glut of books saturating the market, a market that’s growing while the customer base is shrinking. You and all the other authors are competitors. The ones telling you otherwise, those are the smart business people hoping you’ll sit out the game.

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This is a catalog of my published and upcoming books. For the published books, click or tap on the image to view it in the Amazon store. What software do I use to write my books? Click to find out.

	Novel Ascension, The Ymir Trinity Book 1 of 2 Military Science Fiction Fantasy Third Person, Past Tense Part of the Ascension Multiverse (Content Warnings) Published: February, 2024
	Novel Ascension, Sunna Rising Book 2 of 2 Military Science Fiction Fantasy Third Person, Past Tense Part of the Ascension Multiverse Coming: November, 2024
	Novella Ascension, Origins Fantasy Third Person, Past Tense Part of the Ascension Multiverse Coming: November, 2024

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Books (Synopses)

Ascension, The Ymir Trinity

A clandestine American military project, created to stop the emergence of another hostile demigod, betrayed the world they swore to protect. Led by an Air Force General with his own secrets, they did the unthinkable. They negotiated a partnership with the most powerful being in the known universe, an unassuming demigoddess from Iceland named Alma.

Alma and her young eugenics obsessed American companion, Dawn, unwittingly plunged humanity into war after brutal war. With each hard-fought battle, human military and technological progress took a quantum leap forward.

Will humankind’s violence-accelerated evolution raise them to the level of the gods? Was this Ymir’s plan from the beginning?

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