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Jak Koke

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Jak Koke writes and edits from Seattle, where he lives with his partner, Karawynn Long. Jak has authored seven published novels and many short stories under his own name. He has also ghost-written novels and edited manuscripts by other authors. He is currently the Managing Editor of an award-winning small press — Per Aspera Press.

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Size Matters – Word Count

In which I discuss word count, both as a necessary metric for publishers and as a poor (and even damaging) metric for writers.

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Word count statistics box.Publishers need it

Word count has become the yardstick publishers use to determine how big a story or book is likely to be. It’s not quite as big a deal for e-magazines, websites, and ebooks, but even today, 88% of published writing is printed.

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	Beyond the Pale (Dragon Heart Saga, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clockwork Asylum (Dragon Heart Saga, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger Souls (Dragon Heart Saga, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowrun 22: Dead Air 3.50 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terminus Experiment (Shadowrun, No. 34) by Jonathan E. Bond, Jak Koke (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Edge of Chaos (Forgotten Realms: The Wilds, #3) 3.37 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthdawn: Talisman by Sam Lewis (Editor), Louis J. Prosperi (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tom Dowd (Contributor) 3.41 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Blood by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Edgar Allan Poe, Robert E. Howard 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liferock 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadwise by Jak Koke (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Bond 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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