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Originally Posted by P. R. D.  UK, fantasy, everyone. 50 000. Is that so bad? It's impossible to make it longer. |
No chance of being published by any mainstream adult publisher in the UK - or the US, I think. 100,000 is the low end for SF over here. I understand some SF novels around 80,000 are doable in the US - but only if they are terrific, as is always the case, no matter what the length. And yes, fantasy usually starts about 120,000.
Research your market, go into your local bookshops and look at recent novels by authors who've come up in the last five to ten years. If you don't know who they are - you should. No one writes in a vacuum and it's a commercial market.
I didn't publish a novel as short as 300 double-spaced pages (I assume you're talking double-spaced, since that is the industry standard?) after about 1990, let alone 100. It ain't going to happen.