You might think a novel can be any length you like: as long as it needs to be to tell the story. But size matters. Any author who has had their editor ask them to cut 20,000 words will tell you that there are rules and conventions around acceptable length. These depend on the type...
As you can probably guess by now, books come in such a wide variety of lengths, that it is hard to generalize on words in a novel. The minimum word count for a novel is 40,000 words, although some people in the industry will scoff at a book that short. I won’t. The average wo...
Word on the street however is barely reaching the plebs and many want a piece of the action. This is why we see crap shacks going for absurd prices and sellers not giving buyers the time of day in some markets. Of course looking at the chart above, you’ll notice that most ...