'novel' strikes again

[Nancy Friedman]

The confusion is evidently widespread enough that a literary agent was recently moved to issue some advice in his blog:

"In particular, avoid characterizing your book as 'a fiction novel' and, for pete’s sake, don’t characterize it as 'a non-fiction novel'.”

http://andyrossagency.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/the-best-query-letter-ever-written/


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Nancy Friedman
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Gray [mailto:hwgray at GMAIL.COM] 
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: 'novel' strikes again

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The "novels" are chapters.


So, this is a chapter-book, then.


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