Rabbit Writers is a website that shows you if your favorite author is a rabbit or a turtle when it comes to publishing books.
I always wanted to know how fast my favorite authors publish books. I couldn't find a website that showed me, so I decided to create one.
A magic genie appeared, after I rubbed an old lamp, and I wished for this site to be created. This site uses Bootstrap for the HTML, CSS, and JS. The graphs are built using HighCharts. The information about each author is from Goodreads and accessed via its api. Mathjax is used to render the pretty math.
This site works primarily by referencing an author's name to a database containing the metadata of thousands of books. The total word count of these books are added together except for the first book (see next question about why), and divided by the duration of the author’s entire writing career (the period between when they published their first and last book.) If an author has books that are published posthumously, the date of the author's death is used as the end date (when calculating writing speed), instead of the publication date of the posthumous book.
Similar to books published posthumously, we can't include the first book an author publishes because we don't know how long it took for that author to write it. We do know how long it took for the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. book to be written, because we can calculate the time it took by comparing the date the book was published and the date of the book before it. There's nothing to compare with the first book so we can't include it in the calculations.
If a book's publish date contains "00" in the day and/or month it's been published in, that means that I was not able to find the exact date the book was published.
Finding the year of the publish date of a book is easy. Finding information about the exact day and month, especially for books that are old or not popular, is surprisingly impossible. (At least I was not able to find anything. If you know a place that has this information, contact me!!)
As long as book containing "00" in its publish month/day is not the first or last book an author published, then it will not affect the calculations in the overall writing speed on an author. This is because the overall writing speed is total word count divided by total time spent writing. Total time spent writing is equal to the difference between the date of last book published and date of the first book published, so the books in the middle will not affect this.
Not exactly. This site shows you how fast an author PUBLISHES a book. Time to publish book ≠ Time to write book.
For example, an author might write a book quickly... say 3 months. However, it could take a year for the book to get published due to the time required in editing, marketing, revising, proofing, packaging, shipping, designing covers, etc.
However, there is a correlation. Those who write books faster will probably publish books faster as well.
I used publishing dates of books because there is accurate data on when an author published a book. There isn't any on how long it took an author to write a book.
This site is just meant to give a few statistics on the writing speeds of authors throughout their ENTIRE career (the period between when they published their first and last book,) not just when they were actively writing. So if an author took a hiatus between writing books, this site would not reflect that in the calculations.
No! Writing speed is usually NOT a good metric to use in evaluating an author, because an author's writing speed depends largely on the complexity and quality of his work. Someone like George R. R. Martin, who writes a very complicated multi-novel series, would obviously have a slower writing speed than that of someone who churns out books for children.