: When describing novel word counts to agents / publishers, are chapter titles and epigraphs included? The current book I'm working on has named chapters with epigraphs... is it general practice

The current book I'm working on has named chapters with epigraphs... is it general practice to include these in the word count of the book when talking to agents / publishers, or do you just count the main text of the novel?

I know that they won't add up to much extra words, but I thought I'd be precise :)

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If it's part of the manuscript, you should include chapter titles and espcially epigraphs. It's not likely to be much, but anything that isn't front matter should be counted.

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: When describing novel word counts to agents / publishers, are chapter titles and epigraphs included? The current book I'm working on has named chapters with epigraphs... is it general practice

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