52,000 is short by contemporary standards - it's the length of a short
Gold Medal or a long Ken Bruen - about 150 conventional pages - these
days I suppose a short length says 'cult' rather than 'mainstream' - so
whether it's an issue or not depends rather on what you're writing, if
that helps at all.
John
BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> so I'm 2/3 thru my first novel, was speaking with Debby Atkinson,
> who's published by Poison Pen. I said I was shooting for 300 pages,
> she said it's not page count, but the amount of words. I look at my
> material and I think I'd probably come in around 52,000
>
> is this an issue?
>
> John Lau
>
> "You may have the watches, but we have the time." - Afghan proverb
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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