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The Archaic Math of Publishing

And other things Publishing should do away with

Kate McKean
Jan 14, 2021
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Hi friends!

We have A LOT of great questions for our subscriber only Q&A Thursday today, so let’s dive right in.

J asks: I have a math question! About word count. I’ve seen some advice that we should use a multiplier (number of pages in the ms x 200 or 250) for purposes of providing our word count in querying. So while the actual number at the bottom of …

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