Did you get any sense of whether it's just genre fiction that's seeing this pressure to shrink page count, or are other traditionally chunky areas -- thrillers, for example -- being crunched too?
Other fiction as well -- or at least mysteries (I know a few mystery authors or authors who write both).
But none of these rules apply if you're Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham. No one is going to tell Robert Jordan, etc., to write shorter books. The economies of their scales work. It's purely midlist/new writers.
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Date: 2004-09-10 09:18 am (UTC)Other fiction as well -- or at least mysteries (I know a few mystery authors or authors who write both).
But none of these rules apply if you're Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham. No one is going to tell Robert Jordan, etc., to write shorter books. The economies of their scales work. It's purely midlist/new writers.