The length of your book has been oftentimes debated online. Most of the time when the debate comes up it is usually when someone asks how many words or pages should be in their book? There has been a lot of talk about it being from 10K to 50K + words for a fiction book. In a non-fiction book, it's a little more complicated because it will depend on your subject matter and the value you have to offer your readers.Here is a video talking about how many words should be in your fiction/non-fiction book:
There are times I see writers question more about the total pages in a book more than the word count. Here is another video talking about this subject:
Having a book with a lot of pages can actually be troublesome, and I am here to tell you this is one of the biggest reason I decided to create a book series for one of my books called "Stranded by Deception" because it was over 1100 pages long. I talked about this series in a past blog entry titled: "Book Series: Are They a Good Idea".
So this basically will be a judgment call on your part. You have to decide whether your story has the number of pages and value in it so you will know how much to charge for it. If you are traditionally published you won't have to worry about this because your publisher will decide this price. But if you are self-published this will be completely up to you. You need to understand that no reader wants to see a fiction book with less than 50 pages and a price tag of $2.99 or more unless you are a best-selling author with a fan base. If not, you might have to start low until you establish a reader base that you know will pay for what you write. These are just something to think about.
In my next blog entry, I'm going to talk about writers who are known as underwriters. This is a writer who needs to add to their story so you don't end up with a fiction book with less than 50 pages. Hopefully, this blog entry will help you with tips for doing just that.
So stay tuned!
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