There are a lot of crime novels out there that are 70-80 thousand words and SHOULD be 50,000 words. How long were Cain's masterpieces? 40,000 or so? Personally, I like them lean, but maybe I just have a short attention span.
Jon Bassoff
New Pulp Press
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Williams <johnwilliams@...> wrote:
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> 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
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> BaxDeal@... 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
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
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