Is 109,000 words to long for a YA/ adult fantasy novel?
The problem I'm having is that I'm thinking it's to long. But I can't edit any more out otherwise the story line is going to be way to fast paced or important plot threads are going to be missed, which is going to ruin the book and the sequel.
Thanks for any useful help :)
If I were you, I wouldn't worry much.
And Anthony seems to have summed up everything! :D
Book 1 of my YA Fantasy is 99k trimmed down from 107k.
Anthony's right. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
If the text is already as tight and economical as you can make it, and every sentence counts, then the agent will notice that rather than the word count :)
Debbie x
Cheers :)