Today, however, while the physical size of a book may still matter in a bookstore, ebooks have no dimensions. One that likes a fast feed it seems, so I will need to adapt, like you seem to have done already. Who do you love and why? You have to decide what’s important to you. The solution to this problem is very simple: Sit down. My ebooks and paperbacks range 72k to 101k and all sell. Eric Trump: Dad would concede election on 1 condition, Biden: SCOTUS pick imperils health care during pandemic. Read-and write-all the time. I wrote to the agents in the guide what’s called a query letter. Because the thicker the book, the more sales value potential it would carry when it sat on a shelf in a bookstore. I’d love to word count “published” novels to find out how many really are 85,000. How many pages should my novel be? It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, 250-300 words per page. These days does it actually matter. Never stop sending out your stuff. Just to let you know, I sent out several hundred of these letters before a single person ever asked to see the book I was trying to sell. 500-600 words is a good number to aim for. *. The person who FINDS the time is the one who is going to become a writer. It is a very short novel and a thin book. Do not take rejection personally. Would it be a pocket paperback at 4.25" by 6.875"? Great and good insights I have found here as well as challenging questions and answers. HOW MANY WORDS SHOULD MY BOOK CONTAIN TO CONSIDER IT A NOVEL? It’s an ebook. Further on are my Douglas Adams books. Therefore, a 55,000 word book should be about 200 manuscript pages. Size matters, especially when it comes to price. I have to question that Amazon words per page estimate. A good agent will never charge a fee for her work on your behalf.However, if an agent agrees to take on your work, when she places it, she will earn a 10-15% cut of whatever money you make from the sale. It also tells you how to write a query letter, what to expect from your publisher, and all sorts of good stuff…a must buy for any aspiring author! What is noticeable, however, it that short read ebooks are very popular. Generally, your book needs to hit the mark of 40,000 words before it can be considered a novel. If you are constantly writing and sending stuff out (don’t forget to live your life, too, while you are doing this) eventually someone will bite! Start another story. That’s my point – the $2.99 70% floor creates a perverse incentive to jack up the prices of short fiction. Single spaced, 3000 words yields about 6 pages, while double spacing produces around 12 pages. But see what works best for you. 80,000/250 = 320. Answer: 3000 words is 6 pages single spaced or 12 pages double spaced. How many pages is 1,250 words? Write the kinds of stories you like to read. I don’t know how to get started on a story. That’s almost a whole book. I type it on a Word Processor. There are many different different paths to getting published. A novella is a novella, is a novella, not a novel. As a $0.99 to under $2.99 ebook only qualifies for 35% royalty, it’s hard to see how a change could be applied, unless the royalty rate was increased, which would naturally be unprofitable for Amazon. I’m glad to hear you are getting ideas from my blog, Virginia. Who cares about word counters, or how many words or pages are in it? 1500 words is about 3 pages single spaced or 6 pages double spaced. I see 5000-word short stories at that price way too often, and that’s too expensive. It’s a substantial enough read to keep the reader happy, I think, but also allow me to churn out a volume of individual books rather than focusing on a volume of pages. On the left, a page with single line spacing with 187 words fills only a quarter of the page. Yet in the middle of them is King Rat, which must have escaped Clavell’s literary agent’s attention. When an author submitted his new 35,000-word manuscript to his/her literary agent, the agent says, “um, looks good, but can you pad it out to 90,000 words?”.