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Old 09-08-2014, 04:39 AM   #697
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Originally Posted by Geralt View Post
Why? Because big books sell in Fantasy nowadays.
I constantly come across debut books that are in 500-700 pages range.
You know when would that happen in the 80s? Never.
So there is a standard to follow, and that's why there's a lot of fluffing especially with debut authors.
Oddly enough, the debut novel I'm working on (as the techie formatting guy) is a contemporary "new adult" fantasy romance, with the fantasy element being the key MacGuffin. If the author sticks to the outline I've seen, it looks like it'll end up around 130,000 words - around 450 pages - and there's talk of going back through to flesh out some character development a bit more. It may well hit the 500-page mark if that happens.
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