: Re: Is there a rule of thumb about the number of pages a work of fiction should have? To be considered a "real" book, is there a rule of thumb about the number of pages one should have? If

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Word counts offered by publishers are guide lines.

Enough -good words- to tell the story and keep the attention of the audience.

Some folks want to pronounce some magic word count/page count and will will bemoan my answer as wrong. So it goes.

How many manuscript pages/word count are in Joyce's Ulysses? Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow? Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49?

Lot's of authors can hit the word count exactly and never get published....

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