Well, that's debatable. The flippant answer would be YA -- Young Adult novels -- which tend to be shorter than "regular" novels. More seriously, I would suggest that a story of that length seems to be unmarketable, as it doesn't easily fit in anyone's idea of a novella or a short novel. (grin) Edit it, expand it, pair with another story and call it a collection. But your mileage may vary and a number of the electronic SF markets will take submissions of "any" length and of course you could try to serialize it, if the story is amenable to that.
Honestly, I'm picking up these break points out of my ass -- the ranges are based on a number of different sources. For some reason LJ isn't displaying the original post as I reply to your comment, but I think I also left a gap between 10,000 and 12,000 words -- in that case it's either a longer short story or a shorter novelette. Depends on the market.
Seriously, though, it's a good point and I'm not trying to be snarky here. If/When I start selling stuff and get a better handle on these things, I'll surely post "my" results for all to see. (grin) My real point here is that SIX words is way outside the long tail of the curve. (double-grin)
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Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:23 (UTC)Honestly, I'm picking up these break points out of my ass -- the ranges are based on a number of different sources. For some reason LJ isn't displaying the original post as I reply to your comment, but I think I also left a gap between 10,000 and 12,000 words -- in that case it's either a longer short story or a shorter novelette. Depends on the market.
Seriously, though, it's a good point and I'm not trying to be snarky here. If/When I start selling stuff and get a better handle on these things, I'll surely post "my" results for all to see. (grin) My real point here is that SIX words is way outside the long tail of the curve. (double-grin)
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