{"id":29417,"date":"2016-06-07T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=29417"},"modified":"2017-08-01T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:41:18","slug":"mystery-novel-vs-mystery-bookshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-novel-vs-mystery-bookshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Novel vs. Mystery BookShot"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I am not crazy about this new “300 page” (or equivalent word count) quota that authors seem to have now. When I look at my Agatha Christie books, I can see that she didn’t have a certain word\/page limit imposed on her. Don’t get me wrong, I still read 300 page Cozy Mysteries >>> but I do wonder why authors’ seem to write only 300 page Cozies. I don’t mean to imply they have a 300 page quota, because I don’t know if they do. However, if an author’s books all have 300 pages (+\/-) then I start to wonder…\u00a0I’m just not crazy about artificial<\/em> 300 page book limits.<\/p>\n

In my Saturday entry I mentioned that James Patterson was going to appear on the CBS News Sunday Morning<\/em> show. (Although James Patterson doesn’t write Cozy Mysteries, he does write\u00a0some mystery series that I know a lot of us read.) I hope some of you were able to watch that segment.\u00a0I was delighted to hear James Patterson talk about his new idea for books: BookShots.<\/p>\n

If you didn’t see the segment, you may be asking: What’s a BookShot? Well, they’re books that are 150 (+\/-) pages long that cost less than $5.00. Yep, that’s right! Less than $5.00 for both the Kindle format AND the paperback editions! The BookShots\u00a0official website touts these as “ALL THRILLER. NO FILLER.”\u00a0(Don’t worry though >>> he’ll continue to release his regular length mysteries, too!)<\/p>\n

(I currently have sixteen of his BookShots posted on the Soon to be Released page of my site<\/a>, and I see that he will also be releasing James Patterson’s BookShot Flames<\/em>\u00a0which will be 150 page romance novels by other authors. He’ll also have a line of non fiction BookShots such as his September release: Clinton vs. Trump: In Their Own Words<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

With this in mind, I am posing this question: Would you like to see some of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors adopt the BookShots idea? Do you think you’d be interested in reading your Cozy Mysteries even if they were only half as long, (as well as a lot cheaper)? Obviously, if the author changed her\/his books from 300 pages to 150 pages\u00a0(or equivalent word count quota), there would have to be less of something such as descriptive passages or perhaps subplots. >>> Would you miss those?<\/p>\n

P.S. These are not novella length novels. Usually you’re lucky if a novella is 90 pages long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I am not crazy about this new “300 page” (or equivalent word count) quota that authors seem to have now. When I look at my Agatha Christie books, I can see that she didn’t have a certain word\/page limit imposed on her. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-musings","7":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","8":"category-cozy-site-readers-question","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-7Et","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29417"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33526,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions\/33526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}