Paperback Blues
OK, for those of you who didn’t know, I’m in the process of putting together The Complete Red Vixen Adventures, which have all of the primary RVA stories (Captive of the Red Vixen, Shadow of the Red Vixen, Shadow of Her Sins, Shadow of Doubt, and The Red Vixen at Sea), in addition to the side stories I Fought the Claw and the Claw Won, Solstice Gifts, The Parable of the Glassblower and an appendix with several of the worldbuilding articles I’ve written over the years, plus possibly interior illustrations if I put together a Kickstarter for the audiobook and add them as a stretch goal.
Currently the ebook version of this monster is going to be a hair over 450 pages at 12 point type. Big, but perfectly reasonable. It’s not like it’ll add any weight to your Kindle.
Going with the same type size (to save my already terrible eyesight) in a trade paperback size, that will work out to over eleven hundred and fifty pages. Cheating and reducing the typeface to 10 point will drop it down to just over seven hundred and eighty pages. That’s frigging Stephen King and GRRM territory.
So, yeah.
Just wondering if I should still go through with this, give it up, or blind everyone with an 8 pt. typeface...
Currently the ebook version of this monster is going to be a hair over 450 pages at 12 point type. Big, but perfectly reasonable. It’s not like it’ll add any weight to your Kindle.
Going with the same type size (to save my already terrible eyesight) in a trade paperback size, that will work out to over eleven hundred and fifty pages. Cheating and reducing the typeface to 10 point will drop it down to just over seven hundred and eighty pages. That’s frigging Stephen King and GRRM territory.
So, yeah.
Just wondering if I should still go through with this, give it up, or blind everyone with an 8 pt. typeface...