Then it’s a novella. Anything 15,000-40,000 words is a novella. Novellas can be harder to sell to publishing houses, but if your story is perfect that way, don’t add in another 10,000 or 20,000 words that only make the story weaker. And chapter length can be just as tricky. ...
However, there are other genres available for books with a lower word count range. Let’s take a look at categories of books that contain fewer than 40,000 words. Novel: 40,000+ words (though you’re better off above 50,000 words) Novella: 17,500-40,000 words Novelette: 7,500-20,...
Anything under50,000words is generally considered anovella[24]. And anything over110,000words is usually consideredtoolong – especially for a first novel. There are exceptions, of course. Fans of established,Booker Prize[25]-winningnovelists[26]like Hilary Mantel willdevour[27]their latest enormo...
butword count can be as low as 1,000. A story more than 7,500 words but less than 17,000, on the other hand, is what you call a novelette. This term might be familiar to you, and it is often interchanged with the longer form, novella. Novellas are lengthier than novelettes but...
Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000 words Novel: anything over 40,000 words A couple of points about this... 1. Not everyone uses the term "novelette." Some people lump novelettes in with short stories. 2. By most people's standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel....
No, 10,000 words is a longish short story. A novella is between 17,500 words (approximately) and the shortest novels are about 45,000. Some agents don't work with anything with fewer than 60,000 words. All of that is assuming that we're talking about fiction. ...
Remember that this chart features estimates. Always check with a publisher for precise lengths. Type of WorkWordsMS Pages Short-Short Story or Article500 – 2,0002 – 10 Short Story or Long Article2,500 – 5,00010 – 20 Novella20,000 – 40,00080 – 160 ...
A single acceptance carries considerably more weight than one for an equally strong (or even stronger) story at a shorter, more popular, length. While we would love to see more novelette and novella submissions, it shouldn’t be with the expectation that your odds of publication will be any...
On a more northerly shore, Nancy Thayer returns to Nantucket for Secrets in Summer (PRH/Ballantine; OverDrive Sample). For those who prefer horror mixed into their sand, Stephen King returns to a fictional location, Castle Rock, in his new novella, Gwendy’s Button Box, coauthored with Ric...
Ultimately she will be confronted with her own poor judgement, both those she put her trust in that she should not have and those who she neglected and would be there for her in her downfall. This novella is often read with the excellentValentinowhich I read earlier in the year and loved...