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Old 17th May 2008, 11:30 AM   #892 (permalink)
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Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold

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Originally Posted by John Jarrold View Post
The only market is in the magazines and occasionally in small presses. No one in mainstream book publishing is interested in anything less than a full-length novel, at the lengths I've mentioned before, I'm afraid. Epic fantasy has been the bestselling area of the genre for thirty years now.

As a book publisher, I couldn't have looked at a novella in the late 1980s, let alone now.
Well thats just lame. I'm going to win the lottery and publish just novellas, because long books are getting too fracking long.

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