Talk:Summer Falls (novel)
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Novel or short story?
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.
