Fellow author Denver Wilson and I talk about novel lengths over the years. Thanks to the good people at Confusion for producing this series of podcasts. The last graph shown in the podcast: Here are the links discussed in the podcast: •https://capitalizemytitle.com/famous-book-series-and-novel-word-counts/ •http://www.kruegerbooks.com/books/best-sellers/index.html •https://discoverscifi.com/the-top-10-greatest-sci-fi-writers/ •https://www.isfdb.org/ •Ray’s Substack posts on the…
Tag: WordCount
Novel Lengths Revisited
A more commercially-focused dataset. Essay. 800 words, 4-minute read. A few months ago I posted an essay which looked at the word counts/page lengths of novels over the past century, or so. (https://raytabler.substack.com/p/novel-lengths-over-the-years) This was an effort to verify (or disprove) the anecdote that novels used to be a lot…