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Novel update and blog announcement

I turned in the second draft of my novel Leave Society , forthcoming summer 2021 from Vintage Books, on July 15. It’s ~82,000 words. Each of my novels has gotten longer. Eeeee Eee Eeee was ~35k words. Richard Yates was ~50k words. Taipei was ~75k words. I feel calm and wise having a steadily increasing novel length. I want my next novel to be shorter, though, maybe ~50k words.

Here are the word counts of all the draft so far (the Jan 17, 2020 counts as the first draft because it’s the first one I ...