I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy The following books have been on the most recent New York Times Best Seller List for Children’s Picture Books. See Marianne Knowles’ post How to Research Comps Using AR Bookfinder for more info on how to use this particular website. Then, I checked their word counts in AR Bookfinder. Young Adult: 55,000 to 90,000 But these are just estimates, right?Įstimates are all well and good, but what is selling these days? More importantly, what are people reading? The New York Times puts out lists each week of the top 10 Best Sellers in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s. Lit Reactor went out and asked agents what their take on word counts were. Here’s where they come in with our favorites. Lit Rejections has a very thorough list that explains everything from Flash Fiction to the Paranormal. Writer’s Digest suggests the following from Word Count for Novels and Children’s Books: The Definitive Post. She scrolls through, and yes! This word count… is just right.īut what is “just right?” I did a little bit of digging to find out. I was curious to know where my novels come in, if there were any exceptions to these rules, and what the sweet spot might be. But the writer is most hopeful for the story on the final laptop. She skips to the second laptop, four-hundred pages later she decides she needs a nap, and that this word count is too much. The same title is on each screen, but which to pick? She starts at the first and scrolls through fast. She sits down at the kitchen table and sees three laptops sitting there. The aspiring writer steps into a publishing house, alluring and mysterious. The story of the word count I imagine most resembles the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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