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Steven Lyle Jordan · 10-10-2006, 10:28 PM

I don't remember which it was, but one publisher I contacted a year ago would only accept novels of "between 300,000 and 600,000 words." I thought that was simply outrageous. And as editors don't seem to be paring books down much, you have to believe publishers are selling books by the word.

10-10-2006, 10:28 PM	#15
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	I don't remember which it was, but one publisher I contacted a year ago would only accept novels of "between 300,000 and 600,000 words." I thought that was simply outrageous. And as editors don't seem to be paring books down much, you have to believe publishers are selling books by the word.