I have to wonder, though, if that's a word processor 90-120k wordcount or printer's count? Because, times I've done printer's count on a properly formatted MS, it's put the length up significantly. (From 75k to 90k in one case, I believe, but that was a couple years back and I may have had the margin size a bit off at the time, but I think I was using what was recc'd by my mentors.)
The big houses use page count, and I believe they assume roughly 250 words a page, depending on the pitch of your mono-spaced font.
Small publishing houses and on-line venues don't care, and I've seen the whackiest: Word-count by page is DEAD and NO ONE USES it posts from editors at those houses. Whacky because it's not true. They don't use them. Figure that the word count affects typesetting; if the typesetting is done out of house, by-page word count using a mono-space font is the way to go.
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Re: Hmm.
Date: 2004-09-10 09:28 am (UTC)The big houses use page count, and I believe they assume roughly 250 words a page, depending on the pitch of your mono-spaced font.
Small publishing houses and on-line venues don't care, and I've seen the whackiest: Word-count by page is DEAD and NO ONE USES it posts from editors at those houses. Whacky because it's not true. They don't use them. Figure that the word count affects typesetting; if the typesetting is done out of house, by-page word count using a mono-space font is the way to go.