Sample Reading Size

I'm moving closer to self-publishing my debut novel in a series and I'm busy constructing my website and blog. I want to include a sample reading for any visitors once my editor's done looking it over, but my question is what is a good size to post on your website?

Has anyone any thoughts on what draws in more readers?

When I queried, agents asked for a sample reading from five to fifty pages along with the query to get a taste of a novel. I'm debating posting up one, two, or three chapters.

Would love to hear from anyone with experience on this matter.

Thanks,

Lauren

dgaughran said:

Lauren,

You can post as much or as little as you like. However, I think it's best just to post a chapter at a time - depending on how long your chapters are. 800-1500 words is a good figure to aim it for an excerpt IMO. You can go longer, but I wouldn't go that much longer.

You can always post another chapter another day, and so on.

Dave

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Thanks for the tip! I didn't even think about releasing them slowly. Great idea!