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And, I just use Word… One doco for a series (or a set of interlinked series), where I note down everything: plant names, food names (and ingredients), people, planets, organizations, all in alpha order with key words so I can find things when I forget their names. Compared to some of what I see here, it’s the caveman variant of world tracking XD
The traditional publishing word counts are tied to the cost of printing – or they used to be, so 100k was inside the ‘sweet spot’ for balancing story length with keeping the cost of production under control so they could better calculate their production costs and profit margin. Things have shifted enough in the ebook market that readers are less tied to the word/page count and more to the story, so, if you’re publishing purely ebooks then length is less of a problem – and if you’re publishing print-on-demand, then the choice of whether to purchase print or not comes down to the reader’s preference and budget, and what you, as the author and publisher, are willing to put the work in to offer. As an indie, you are much freer to follow the demands of the story than you ever were when you had to have an eye on the requirements of the traditional market. Having said that, though, those requirements give you a vague ballpark to aim at, *if* that is helpful to you as you write.
Hey, E.! Nice to meet you. I have a bit of work in the urban fantasy genre – not romance, more short work revolving around paranormal policing and human-fey-troll-pixie relations, but no time to add a full-length work into that mix at the moment as my short-work series and sf are hogging most of my time. Greetings from Down Under.
Hey, Alice. Nice to meet you! I write SF that skirts the edge of military (tends to be mercs or vigilante corps, not quite in the military niche, and not quite out of it)…not sure what you mean by non-trendy, but I don’t think my stuff fits trendy, either – and I write SF, Fantasy and cross-overs…wherever the story wants to go. Good to see you around 🙂
It doesn’t look like I have any replies, here. I do vaguely remember seeing something in the FB page posts. I just haven’t had the time to chase them or correct things here. I *think* they did some work on it. Maybe try it again?
Okay, so it’s only two books that create this error, so I looked for something they had in common, and tried altering that. The first was to ensure the short description no longer equalled 100 characters. Bringing them under that mark did not solve the problem. The second was to remove any special characters like ampersands or stars from the descriptions. That also did not solve it. So I am still stuck with them returning an error. Any ideas?