Novel or short story?[[edit source]]
What's the marketing language on this one? Is it being sold as a short story or as a novel? If it's a short story, as the lead currently suggests, this needs to be moved to (short story).
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:19: Fri 05 Apr 2013
- The book is forty pages long, and I honestly didn't put much thought into it as I used the preload from the last story in the "range". I think short story would be a more accurate description of the book. --Revan\Talk 14:24, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
- I've done like 10 minutes of Googling and I'm not seeing any particular characterisation on the official pages. I've just snipped the words "short story", and we'll leave it at "e-book". With anything under 100 pages, you're kinda at the mercy of the publishers to tell you whether they think it's a novella or a short story. The Penguin 50th anniversary line is marketed as short stories; the old The Adventures of K9 stuff was called a series of novels; the Telos stuff was called "novellas". There's really no objective measure as to what a "work of short fiction" should be called, so we'll certainly have things of equal length being dabbed differently.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:35: Fri 05 Apr 2013
- I've done like 10 minutes of Googling and I'm not seeing any particular characterisation on the official pages. I've just snipped the words "short story", and we'll leave it at "e-book". With anything under 100 pages, you're kinda at the mercy of the publishers to tell you whether they think it's a novella or a short story. The Penguin 50th anniversary line is marketed as short stories; the old The Adventures of K9 stuff was called a series of novels; the Telos stuff was called "novellas". There's really no objective measure as to what a "work of short fiction" should be called, so we'll certainly have things of equal length being dabbed differently.
In-universe or real world characters?[[edit source]]
How would the characters in this novel be addressed on this wiki? The book is clearly meant to be a fictional in-universe novel by Amy (with a lot of allusions to her own childhood experiences and travels), but then we have a separate page for the real world version written by James Goss (though it's still marketed as by Amelia Williams, not Goss). So on the character pages, do we mention that they are supposed to be fictional within the fictional universe of DW or do we pretend that Kate is as real as Amy within the DW universe? Mewiet ☎ 19:54, April 5, 2013 (UTC)