Shorter novels are easier to sell.If you want toget a literary agent, or a traditional publisher, you’ll have an easier time as a début novelist with a short novel. This is for the simple reason that readers – and therefore publishers and agents – are less likely totake a punt on[...
Genre can also make a difference to how long your novel should be. Science fiction and fantasy novels tend to have higher word counts than most other genres, averaging around 90,000–120,000 words, since they often need a lot of words for world building and introducing magic systems. Big,...
She felt like a total failure. But she took that feeling of hopelessness and chose to do what she’d always wanted to do—write fantasy novels for children. As she would later recount, ”I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.“You’ve probably heard ...
In the end, they are taking on a mortgage albatross for a fantasy but hey, this is the land of Hollywood so it is rather fitting I suppose. Flippers are also like a canary in a coalmine. They are usually the first to taste the cold shoulder of a turn in the housing market. You ...