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Originally Posted by whitearrow
I'm not really a fan of original short fiction -- for me, there's not enough time to really invest in brand new characters. But for backstories, minor characters, world-building in ongoing or even finished series, I'm totally there.
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I enjoy both. When I'm looking at a new author, I like to have the opportunity (if possible) to try something of theirs that is a) short. And b) not a part of any bigger puzzle.
I've learned that it's fairly easy for an author to throw several hundred-thousand words at me and get many of them to "stick." But an author who manages to hook me with 7,500 - 40,000 words is an author whose novels I'm going to
really look forward to.
But, yeah ... those
Expanse backstory novellas and short-stories are great, too.
I'm a short-stuff in the morning, novels in the afternoon/evening kind of guy.