tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329782430566577328.post846827646108243957..comments2023-12-19T05:15:27.114-05:00Comments on Liana Brooks: The Publishing Industry (Glossary of Terms)Liana Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14587774916354749190noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329782430566577328.post-11252655768398935552011-08-23T23:04:03.512-04:002011-08-23T23:04:03.512-04:00Thanks for posting those. :) I appreciate it.Thanks for posting those. :) I appreciate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329782430566577328.post-69663686184202646792011-08-23T13:36:40.252-04:002011-08-23T13:36:40.252-04:00Thank you, Jamie. :o) I was trying to keep it from...Thank you, Jamie. :o) I was trying to keep it from getting too complicated.Liana Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14587774916354749190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329782430566577328.post-84085154745843024512011-08-23T11:07:39.646-04:002011-08-23T11:07:39.646-04:00- Self-pub editors aren't always just line edi...- Self-pub editors aren't always just line editors. Many are content editors as well (and many self-pub authors pay good money for content edits separate from line editing), so your distinction is a bit misleading. <br /><br />- In certain genres (romance, for example, a novel starts at 50,000 words (not 70k) and goes up to 120,000 words. Most other genres I've seen a novel starts at 60k. <br /><br />- Short story writers tend to get annoyed when you class anything over 5k words as a short story (I only know that because I was labeling my 8-10k stories as "short", and was promptly corrected). 5k - 20k words is a novelette (which to my knowledge, was used by the sci-fi community first). Shorts are 1k - 5k. <br /><br />- Flash fiction is anything up to 1k words, everywhere I've seen it defined. <br /><br />Obviously, there isn't an actual "standard" for word counts, but these are what I see everywhere, including most publisher sites I've checked out...Jamie D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05486427517423813962noreply@blogger.com