Congrats on the acheivement!!
Wow! Congrats on finishing writing a whole book 
I hope everything goes well with your beta readers!
I hope everything goes well with your beta readers!
Just my two cents.
Word count is the only way to judge a books length. Average book size - 85000 words.
If you want to go through a publishing company, they typically will not take books that exceed that amount or are lower than 79000 words. Safe zone for new authors with a debut novel is around 80,000-85,000 words. Beyond that, you need an agent, and an agent works with specific genres. You usually cannot get a credible publishing company without an agent.
The reason why word count is more important is because you could very well have a large font that eats up space. Formatting for a standard paperback novel and font size of 10.5 renders, roughly, 330 pages (this is with a word count of 88,000 & includes title page, dedication, and copyright/publication information).
Also, no matter what anyone says, PAY to have an editor go over your work. If you do not, you can truly hurt your dreams of being an author. Self published or otherwise.
If anything I stated has been listed already, I am sorry. There were many posts and I wanted to help.
Word count is the only way to judge a books length. Average book size - 85000 words.
If you want to go through a publishing company, they typically will not take books that exceed that amount or are lower than 79000 words. Safe zone for new authors with a debut novel is around 80,000-85,000 words. Beyond that, you need an agent, and an agent works with specific genres. You usually cannot get a credible publishing company without an agent.
The reason why word count is more important is because you could very well have a large font that eats up space. Formatting for a standard paperback novel and font size of 10.5 renders, roughly, 330 pages (this is with a word count of 88,000 & includes title page, dedication, and copyright/publication information).
Also, no matter what anyone says, PAY to have an editor go over your work. If you do not, you can truly hurt your dreams of being an author. Self published or otherwise.
If anything I stated has been listed already, I am sorry. There were many posts and I wanted to help.
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