An overly long word count is probably something I don't have to worry about, barring an omnibus edition.
Quite the opposite: Even my novels tend to fall shy of 70,000 words. Much of this year I have been working on a series of 35,000 word novellas (something on the order of a hundred pages in publishing land, give or take...I think.)
I suppose, that if the counts work out as estimated, the one novella series - 6 in all - would top 200,000 words, maybe 220,000.
I do remember that a lot of the older SF books, including then groundbreakers like Norton's 'Witch World' and LeGuin's 'EarthSea' checked in at well under 200 pages for each individual book.
Quite the opposite: Even my novels tend to fall shy of 70,000 words. Much of this year I have been working on a series of 35,000 word novellas (something on the order of a hundred pages in publishing land, give or take...I think.)
I suppose, that if the counts work out as estimated, the one novella series - 6 in all - would top 200,000 words, maybe 220,000.
I do remember that a lot of the older SF books, including then groundbreakers like Norton's 'Witch World' and LeGuin's 'EarthSea' checked in at well under 200 pages for each individual book.