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You usual target a wordcount for a market, as I understand it. You can't sell (to a publisher, I mean) a YA book that's 600 pages in a mass market paperback. Yo

You usual target a wordcount for a market, as I understand it. You can't sell (to a publisher, I mean) a YA book that's 600 pages in a mass market paperback. You can't sell a 220 page hardcover to a publisher that wants big fat doorstop fantasy novels.

nottorp 4y ago
That only means publishers are accomplices.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  They do that because they think it's what will sell. They might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they have better insight into the market than I do.