I'm going by what Microsoft Word tells me on the bottom of the document, rather than page count. I'm around 200 pages, double spaced right now and know I'm about 2/3 done with the story. I've been pacing it to hit 300. Dave Zeltzerman tells me they go by page count and estimate 25,000 words per 100 pages. I'll submit in PDF, so I'm thinking now that it's a non-issue
John Lau
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.
"You may have the watches, but we have the time." - Afghan proverb
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From: John Williams <johnwilliams@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: 65.000 words
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:
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> 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
>
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