If you tend to write in long paragraphs, your words per page might be high. For instance, if your book features a lot of short lines of dialogue, your words per page will be low no need to worry. If your word count per page is much lower or higher than the guideline, there might be an obvious reason. For instance (grabbing the nearest MS), 62,000 words divided by 202 pages equals just under 307 words per page. (The standard A4 paper size in the UK is slightly larger, but the guideline is the same.) Your word processor can help you calculate the average number of words per page in your manuscript.* Find the total number of words and divide it by the number of pages. In the United States and Canada, the generally accepted industry guideline for words per double-spaced, 8.5 × 11–inch page is 250–300. So how do you know whether your pages equal their pages? How Many Words to a Page? Please be sure to include in your manuscript formatting: A title page with the book’s title, author’s name, and contact info page numbers in the header or footer page breaks between chapters.
Times New Roman, but other fonts are fine as long as the text is clear and legible. Make sure your manuscript is double-spaced and properly formatted. Sometimes the instructions are vague: “10 pages.” And sometimes they’re not: “Please submit 50 pages.
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But if they respond by asking you to submit a full or partial manuscript, they ask for pages, not words. In an initial query letter, they always want to know your manuscript’s total word count. What Agents and Editors WantĪgents and editors want what they want. Maybe it’s a habit from the time before automated word counts, when writers still put paper manuscripts in the mail. Why then, at the querying stage, are writers almost always asked to submit a set number of pages instead of a set number of words? I have no idea. Designers and production editors use a manuscript’s word count to estimate how many pages the published book will be, taking into account how they want it to look: how large the pages will be, how much white space is wanted, whether illustrations will add to the page count, etc. Page counts, on the other hand, are for printed books. Thrillers, graphic novels, romances-their editors all have target ranges for the length of book readers expect. An editor acquiring young-adult fantasy novels will consider anything from about 80,000 words and up. A picture book editor might think in terms of 0–750 words. An appropriate word count for a project depends on the kind of book. Long before a book is printed, while the text is still in manuscript form, editors at publishing houses speak in terms of word count, not page count.
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