Q&A Thursday
Statistical Edition
Hi friends,
You have a 93.4% of learning something new from this newsletter, so read on. Today we're talking numbers, word counts and statistics, two of my favorite kinds of made up numbers in publishing. I have hard and fast thoughts about these soft numbers, so get out your TI-82s and take note.
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JA asks: I've finished a romantasy that I'm ready to query at just under 130K words. My locked comps run similarly long and I believe the word count is structural, not bloat. Do agents typically ask for cuts before going on submission, or does that conversation happen at the editorial stage? And does the romantasy shelf's current sales performance give debut authors more practical latitude on length than the standard advice suggests?
Your book should be as long as your book needs to be. Just under 130k for an adult (I'm assuming) romantasy is a little long, but not yikes, I'm getting nervous long.
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