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If your book truly needs to be this long, then it needs to be this long. Destroying your book by cutting it etc. will only diminish its quality and make it less publishable. If your book is truly ...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T09:34:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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System
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2019-12-08T09:34:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
1. If your book truly needs to be this long, then it needs to be this long. Destroying your book by cutting it etc. will only diminish its quality and make it _less_ publishable.
2. If your book is truly great, its length doesn't matter. Even for a newcomer.
3. If you write in a market segment where books are mainly sold through marketing and one fad is following another (e.g. YA), length is more important than in market segments where books are sold through their literary merit and publishers expect a longer shelf life.
4. If publishers don't want to publish a newcomer's book only because of its length, write the next book and publish that first.
5. If the only thing "wrong" with your book is its length, then the agent or publisher you submit to will tell you. If you don't hear back from the agent/publisher ("silent rejection"), the wordcount wasn't the only problem.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-08-05T12:27:27Z (about 6 years ago)
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