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No there isn't. If you are contributing stories to a magazine, paper or a collection of short stories the editor might have an upper limit and you can ask him or her about it. If you are writing a novel, there is no preset limit. Most classics we read today were originally published in bits on newspapers of those days.

You can follow one JKR did with Harry Potter books. The first book was relatively short, and as the series became more popular the length of the books increased.

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