This is not a question but in answer to a request on word counts

Genre Guidelines

Literary / Commercial / Women’s: 80,000 to 110,000

Crime Fiction: 90,000 to 100,000

Mysteries / Thrillers / Suspense: 70,000 to 90,000 – The variation covers Cozy Mysteries 70-75k.

Romance: 40,000 to 100,000 but for mainstream romance novels 70K-100K.

Fantasy: 90,000 to 120,000

Paranormal: 75,000 to 95,000

Horror: 80,000 to 100,000

Science-Fiction: 90,000 to 125,000

Historical: 80,000 to 120,000

Young Adult Fiction (YA): 50,000 to 80,000

Middle Grade: 25,000 to 40,000

Picture Books: 500 to 700

Short Stories: 1000 to 8,000

Novella: 20,000 to 50,000

Non-Fiction: 70,000 to 110,000

Flash Fiction: 100 to 500

The Debut Rule Breakers

There are many writers who choose the more difficult path of convincing publishing professionals that the parameters should be stretched beyond the norm and that their manuscript justifies a larger word count. Now regarded as classics, these debut novels had to be edited to reduce them to these published word counts.

1. Remembrance Rock: 530,030

2. Gone with the Wind: 418,053

3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 308,931

4. Memoirs of a Geisha: 186,418

5. Jane Eyre: 183,858

6. Catch-22: 174,269

7. White Teeth: 169,389

8. Watership Down: 156,154