BWFoster78
Myth Weaver
How many times have we heard the following?
"You need to make your book shorter. If you go over 70k, 100k, 120k, etc, it won't work."
Personally, I've heard that advice a lot. When I advertised for an editor on elance, one of the proposals actually stated, "you should shorten it" without even having read it. Needless to say, I didn't even consider that proposal.
Here's an interesting post:
eBook success: short and sweet? | Belinda Williams
The main takeaway is that the author says that, according to the founder of Smashwords, sells decrease with word count.
Thoughts?
"You need to make your book shorter. If you go over 70k, 100k, 120k, etc, it won't work."
Personally, I've heard that advice a lot. When I advertised for an editor on elance, one of the proposals actually stated, "you should shorten it" without even having read it. Needless to say, I didn't even consider that proposal.
Here's an interesting post:
eBook success: short and sweet? | Belinda Williams
The main takeaway is that the author says that, according to the founder of Smashwords, sells decrease with word count.
Thoughts?