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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
What I get a kick out of is when stories have "grown in the telling." A series that was initially planned for three novels, gets expanded to four or five because it, "all just wouldn't fit" into three novels. Which is all fine and dandy at face value, by the way. The funny part is how the story always seems to "grow" in whole-novel increments (each commensurate with the page-count of the previous books). Nobody ever needs to add a novella's worth of material to get things "just right."  |
Well, I've added short stories to series. And originally I planned the Moon Shadow series to be just three books. The fourth is a spinoff and a full novel. BUT, I did actually write it because people buy the series and the spinoff was originally just a short story. The short stories (tweeners as they are sometimes referred to) don't go over all that well. I suspect novellas would get the same bit of sneering that sometimes goes with a short story. It really depends on the reader, I think. I also thing novellas and short "tweeners" are becoming a l lot more common. It seems like publisher are asking their writers to write "Christmas episodes" and the like. I see tweeners for urban fantasy as well as cozy mysteries.
As for me as a reader, I don't download the tweeners. Well, I have downloaded a couple (Lindsay Buroker wrote a novella in between Torrent and the second novel). I haven't actually read it, but I do think I downloaded it. I could be wrong about that though. It might just be on my list to watch in case it goes free.