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Originally Posted by arjaybe
It's interesting to see what different people consider "short" and "long." I aimed for about 300 pages because I didn't want to abuse readers with a too-large book. I came in at 134,000 words after hacking about 10,000 out. By my count, that's a little over 300 pages, so I was satisfied. By the comments here, it's a short book for some and a little long for others.-)
I'm more likely to be irritated by a book that's too big than by one that's too small.
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That's huge and in mass market would be at least 450 (I'm ball parking. There is an actual formula somewhere.) But in trade paperback, you could get it shorter, easily.