Length of YA Christian Fantasy Book

ABKN · Jul 27, 2009

Is 58,600 words too few?

Does anyone who writes Christian books post in the SYW area for Queries, or should I post it here?

Thanks

BruceJ · Aug 3, 2009

Don't know if this is OBE, but the word-count expectations vary by genre and publisher. General rules of thumb I've run into are.

60K+ to be considered a novel
80-100K for historical fiction
80-120K for sci-fi/fantasy

The shortest ms I've written for a novel is ~69K.
I have two historical novels, one at ~89K, the other at ~92K. I also have a novella at ~40K.

Again, these are just shots from the hip. You can get several good hits by Googling "novel word count."

Hope this helps.

ABKN · Aug 3, 2009

BruceJ said:
Don't know if this is OBE, but the word-count expectations vary by genre and publisher. General rules of thumb I've run into are.

60K+ to be considered a novel
80-100K for historical fiction
80-120K for sci-fi/fantasy

The shortest ms I've written for a novel is ~69K.
I have two historical novels, one at ~89K, the other at ~92K. I also have a novella at ~40K.

Again, these are just shots from the hip. You can get several good hits by Googling "novel word count."

Hope this helps.

Thanks Bruce, I appreciate you taking the time to answer this.

Robin Bayne · Aug 3, 2009

I would check a few publisher's websites and look at the writer's guidelines.

Length of YA Christian Fantasy Book

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