Simon King is the author of over 30 books across five different series, including the Sam Rader series, the non-fiction Prison Days series, and the MAX series. 

Before he became an author, Simon worked in a maximum-security prison in Australia, and he only published his first book in 2018.

In this episode, Simon explains how he went from working a demanding day job, working nights and shifts, to publishing up to 12 books a year over three years.

Simon also believes that it’s essential to set a clear target for how much you want to write every day. He set a target to write 3,000 words every day no matter what, and he explains what that did for his writing career.

In this episode we discuss:

• How his job as a prison officer helped with his writing
• Having an ideal reader in mind
• Starting with the end 
• Moving from writing non-fiction to fiction
• Strategies Simon uses to promote his books
• Deciding on the length of a book

Resources:

• Books by Simon King

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