Novelette Value?

Stories that long are hard to place. Do you have many publishing credits? If you're just starting to sell, I'd say take the money and run. If you can't even think of another market for it, why would you not sell it to the buyer? Who knows, maybe they'll buy your next three novellas and then you can compile them and sell them as a book.

They offered you "1 to 5 cents a word"? Um, five, please? That's a $400 difference in payment.

Take the $$$.

That's what you get for writing a Novellette instead of something marketable.

Write a novel.

Make your nut.


Don't sit there with some 18,000word short story on steroids and expect it to pay your rent.

What was said by the others. Sell it to them.

Just remember 18,000 is too much and yet not enough. You might as well go for novel size from now on, if you don't like the payment.

That's what I'm doing...for now...though I do have novels also.
10,000 is generally better to sell for less money...it doesn't hurt so much.
And it's good practice.

No money is no money

Signed
Profound

I know it's frustrating after all your hard work, but unfortunately that length is quite difficult to place.

My advice is the same as everyone else's. Take the money and run.

money

As long as you're only selling first rights, take the money and run.

Simply put, how much time and effort you put into a work of fiction has zero bearing on its value. You can spend five years writing something no one will give you a dime for, or you can write something in a day that will make you rich.

And as long as you retain reprint rights, one sale is not the end of life for a story. But it is the real birth of that story, the point where others may take notice of it, and you, and give you the chance to sell it again and again, or to turn it into a novel, or who knows, maybe a movie someday.

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Go on...take the money and run.
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Go on...take the money and run.