The quality of a book written in a week

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the quality of a book that’s written in a week. Obviously it can’t be possible to write an entire book in such a short amount of time. The quality simply has to be horrible. And where is the time for research? Fact checking? Editing? The list goes on.

They’re all valid questions. Before I answer them, I looked at where the questions were coming from – and made an interesting discovery. Without exception they were originating from more or less established authors in the traditional sense of the word. People who had already written one, or more, books – and had those published through a traditional publishing house. It had taken them all years to do the things they were inquiring about: research, writing, editing, and finding a publishing home. Out of self respect, and quite possibly for self-justification, they just had to ask those questions. I don’t blame them.

There’s nothing wrong with the traditional model at all. As a matter of fact…