Siglark

I have completed a 30,000 word political fiction novel. I have submitted it to several literary agents and publishers as a science fiction and they rejected it immedietly because of length. I've been using www.writersmarket.com to find agents and publishers. That website lists no one under science fiction novella publishers. Is there another listing where I could find novella publishers? should I market it as something other than science fiction (it is political with slight science allusions)? Should I bite the bullet and try to write it into a fuller length novel?

aspiring

It's too short, honestly. It's short even for a children's novel. As for novellas, it's EXTREMELY unusual for a first-time writer to be accepted on the strength of a novella. Not many places will publish a novella anyway.

Develop it. You need to be looking at over 100,000 words for that kind of book.

Or write another, of course My first three novels are languishing in a drawer. My fourth is being published. I tried to lengthen an earlier novel but simply tied myself in knots. It was easier to write a completely new one!

lisajane

Try political, but you'll probably run into the same problem there. Either make it longer for a proper novel length; make it shorter and publish it as short story; find a publisher that specialises in only novellas or start over.

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