How Long Should Your Story Be?

How Long Should Your Story Be

How Long Should Your Story Be?

While I am updating our Writer’s Resources Word Glossary on our Member’s Only website (only available to our members.) I came across the definition for “Word Count”. Looking on the internet for the typical word count for books by genre is helpful to know when writing your story. These are considered averages and if you want to know how many pages these word counts will produce for paperbacks I always rely on the Kindle Publishing Cpver Calculator: https://kdp.amazon.com/cover-calculator

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Coming Soon Workshops Awards and Anthologies

Coming Soon Workshops Awards and Anthologies

There are lots of great things happening in the next few months. It may be coming to the end of the school year and everyone wants to go on vacation but writers and the First Coast Romance Writers group will be working hard to bring you great workshops, the winners of the NERFA contest and … Read more

Member Spectacular With Special Law Enforcement Workshop

Member Spectacular with special Law Enforcement workshop: In-Person and Online Guest Speaker – Paul Schad: Actor / Police & Crime Technical Advisor If any of the characters in your stories are police officers…this class is for you. Paul Schad will talk about the types and personalities of detectives you’ll find in different investigative units. Let’s … Read more

Celebrating 2019 NEFRA Winners

Celebrating 2019 NEFRA Winners

Congratulations to the 2019 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards Winners! Contemporary Romance 56k words and up Mischief in Mayhem by L.E. Rico Contemporary Romance 40k-56k words Christmas and Cannolis by Peggy Jaeger Historical Romance Kidnapped by a Rogue by Margaret Mallory Romantic Suspense Shadow Point Deputy by Julie Anne Lindsey Futuristic/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Phaze by S.C. … Read more