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 writingHaving an ideal reader in mindStarting with the end Moving from writing non-fiction to fictionStrategies Simon uses to promote his booksDeciding on the length of a bookResources:Books by Simon KingSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/becomeawritertoday)