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Your 30,000-word novella may even bepublished as a stand-alone, either in regular print ordigital, at a small press. However, small presses often don'tpublish many novellas, perhaps one to two a year atthe most. Some presses, though welcoming novellas, simplyhaven't received any they like.
Moreover, how long is a novella?
To be honest, in modern times, the term is rarely used,and novelettes are rarely published singly. A novelette is longerthan a short story, but shorter than a novella. The wordcount is usually between 7,500 words to 17,500 words.
In respect to this, how many words make a novella?
In fiction
| Classification | Word count |
|---|---|
| Novel | 40,000 words or over |
| Novella | 17,500 to 39,999 words |
| Novelette | 7,500 to 17,499 words |
| Short story | under 7,500 words |
For most publishers, a book is“novel-length” when it's between 50,000and 110,000 words. At a writers conference I recentlyattended, publishing veteran Jane Friedman said 80,000 wordsis good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novellength territory, and above 120,000 is likely toomuch.