User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-24056001-20131019113917/@comment-3562424-20131020035217

It usually takes 6 months to edit and publish and distribute a book of any size, so it's really only taking rick 6 months to write a 600+ page book, and in that time he's going on tours, probably taking a vacation, etc. But keep in mind that with a 600 page book, his manuscript is probably around 800 pages. So he's probably writing about 130-140 pages a month, which is really good.