The publishing industry is really shooting themselves in the foot with this idea. One of my favorite books in recent years for the YA genre, Brightly Woven by Alex Bracken, is great but a mess. There are so many unexplained things and backstory and crucial bits and I was wondering why such a hot mess? Turns out the publishers had the author cut out nearly half the story resulting in not enough page time to fully account for this brilliant world and its characters and then in turn they refused a sequel because the first did not perform as well as they liked. A)Had they allowed her to write the book her way it would not have needed a sequel. B) Had they allowed her to leave that stuff in more people would have liked it since the missing/vaguely incomplete stuff was one of the major critiques from all readers. I loved it, but I weep when I imagine what it could have been.
I do not know what agents and/or editors you have been researching, but there are a great number of novels being published, including debut authors, with well over an 80,000 word count...
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Date: 2012-11-09 04:50 am (UTC)From:I do not know what agents and/or editors you have been researching, but there are a great number of novels being published, including debut authors, with well over an 80,000 word count...
But good luck with the editing!