{"id":148,"date":"2009-05-17T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:51:52","slug":"how-long-is-frost-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/how-long-is-frost-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long is Frost Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting some Q&A; about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakotafrost.com\/books\/frostmoon\/\">Frost Moon<\/a> from an email&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q. How long is Frost Moon?<\/span><br \/>A. Frost Moon is ~90,000 words.  The version my friends and beta readers read was  87,000, but the draft the publisher and I are working on has expanded that to 91,000.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q.  How does that compare to a normal novel?<\/span><br \/>A. &#8220;That depends.&#8221;  The scuttlebutt in the writing community led me to believe that are about 60,000 to 90,000 words, and I was shooting for 75,000 when I wrote Frost Moon.  Since then I&#8217;ve done <a href=\"http:\/\/theswivet.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/on-word-counts-and-novel-length.html\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pubrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/too-short.html\">research<\/a>, and it seems like novels range from 60,000 to 100,000 with a sweet spot at 75,000 to 80,000 words &#8230; but again, that depends:\n<ul>\n<li>  The always entertaining Orson Scott Card <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatrack.com\/writingclass\/lessons\/2000-08-02-1.shtml\">weighs in<\/a>, giving us this answer with many caveats: &#8220;a book feels like a normal novel somewhere around 100,000 words and is hard to publish at less than 75,000&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia presents <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Length_of_a_novel\">a range of evidence<\/a> on the topic, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal_Farm\">Animal Farm<\/a> at 30,000 words (typically considered a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novella\">novella<\/a>) to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_and_Peace\">War and Peace<\/a> at nearly 600,000.  <\/li>\n<li>Fantasy novels tend to be larger &#8230; 250,000 words is not unusual.For comparison, Atlas Shrugged is almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noblesoul.com\/orc\/books\/rand\/atlas\/faq.html\">650,000 words<\/a>, and Lord of the Rings (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lord_of_the_Rings\">considered to be one novel published in three volumes<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/How_many_words_in_the_Lord_of_the_Rings\">525,000<\/a>.  Romance novels, on the other hand, tend to be shorter &#8230; 50,000 to 60,000 words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, it looks like Frost Moon is typical for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urban_fantasy\">the genre<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q. What format will Frost Moon be published in?<\/span><br \/>A.  The publisher is thinking Frost Moon will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paperback#Trade_paperback\">trade paperback<\/a>, a slightly larger sized format that&#8217;s easy to print on demand.  However, depending on interest, this publisher will basically reissue Frost Moon in whatever size and format sells.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q. Why aren&#8217;t you mentioning the publisher&#8217;s name?<\/span><br \/>A. Two reasons:\n<ol>\n<li>Until we have a signed contract that would be presumptuous, and<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t jinx it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope that clears all that up&#8230;<br \/>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting some Q&#038;A; about Frost Moon from an email&#8230; Q. How long is Frost Moon?A. Frost Moon is ~90,000 words. 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