What Type of Book is This?

Mar 31

I was watching a Joanna Penn YouTube video where she was interviewing Alan Baxter ( Aug 21, 2016 ). The video was called

How to Write Short Stories That Sell With Alan Baxter

In that video Alan breaks down the word count that defines whether a book is a short story, novelette, novella, or novel as defined by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Here they are:

Short Story is 7,500 words

Novelette is 7,501 up to 17,500 words.

Novella is 17,501 up to 40,000 words.

Novel is anything over 40,001 words.

YA fiction usually runs between 40,000 and 60,000 words.

Adult fiction is generally 70,000 and he said Publishers usually look at ones from 80,000 to 120,000 words.

I was curious as to what my books word count was so I took a peek to see where they fell:

94,781 words - Novel

12,580 words - Novelette

5,851 words - Short Story

4,153 words - Short Story

21,128 words - Novella

23,935 words - Novella

21,416 words - Novella

18,762 words currently

78,595 words -Currently

Write on!

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications

"Throwing Stones at a Glass House"

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones At a Glass House"

https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/

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